OS-SCO-Admin-User-Add

See Also 

OS-SCO Administration

OS-SCO

Add User With scoadmin

For help navigating within the scoadmin utility, see the OS-SCO-Admin-scoadmin page.

A typical user on this system might be added as follows:

SCOadmin on hostname 

• Account Manager

Account Manager on csdiloan 

• Users
  • Add New User...

hostname: Add New User 

Login 

Login_name

The format of a Login_name varies according to local site or system practices. On a system with a high user count, it may be helpful to adopt a format that can uniformly accommodate name collisions.

User ID 

UID

Usually the auto-selected UID is acceptable. Some administrators may to issue UIDs in numeric ranges to collate users in some way (i.e. administrator, non-administrator, etc.), but using Login Group is most common.

Comment 

Firstname Lastname

For special purpose accounts, consider adding a annotation like (admin), or another suitable string.

For shared accounts, it can be helpful to briefly summarize the purpose of the account.

Password 

<*> Set password now

Login Shell 

/bin/sh

Networked Via 

Home Directory 

/home/Login_name

Login Group 

Primary_group

A group that created files are assigned by default when other influences are not present.

[ OK ]

hostname: Set Password: Login_name 

<*> Enter a new password 

Enter Password 

password

Confirm Password 

password

[x] Force password change at next login

[ OK ]

Exit scoadmin