Hello
How do you list user accounts in Solaris (SunOS 5.2)? I am looking everywhere but can't find it. I would like to list the user accounts on the server and also see their rights (whether they are root or not).
Thanks,
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only root (user id 0 , the 3rd field in /etc/passwd) is privileged as administrator. users are given permissions over files and directories based on their user ids and groups they belong to. What type of rights are you looking for?
to manage users you may use commands like:
useradd , usermod
http://docs.sun.com/app/do
http://www.kobhi.com/solar
if the user id is not 0 and not in group id 0 and he is not given rights to run commands as root (e.g. via sudo command, please see http://www.gratisoft.us/su
from the list of users you found, only bb , test, guest are the users on your system other than the ones that come with the system, hence if they are not given user id 0 and not in group id 0 then I think they are not privileged
use
passwd -l guest
this will lock the account, please see:
http://docs.sun.com/app/do
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by: omarfaridPosted on 2009-02-10 at 09:15:29ID: 23602618
users are listed in /etc/passwd file. The first field of each line is the user name. you may get names by running
awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
users are grouped in groups and the fourth field in this file is the group id to which the user belongs
groups are defined in /etc/group file. this file shows the other groups to which the user belongs