Creating AIX user accounts

Creating AIX user accounts

1. Before creating a new user account following the steps below, please check if their account username (should be the same as users office id)  already exists by grepping for the username in /homecomm/nsek/create_id_grp directory .  If the user is already present on other servers, re-use the same user uid number

2. Change directory to /homecomm/nsek/create_id_grp.

3. Check the content of last_id_num.

e.g # cat last_id_num

Use the next id in file to create new user (increment by 1 and that will be a new users’ id)

Update the new number in file last_id_num

4. if username LAN id is not given, check user’s LAN id using

Active Directory Users and Computers.

5. Edit the mkuser command in the appropriate createID-<server>.ksh for record.

# mkuser id=1496 pgrp=<newgroup> gecos='George Zhang' home=/home/gzhang

      fsize=-1 fsize_hard=-1 gzhang

6. Copy and Paste the mkuser command and execute on the target server.

7. Assign password to new user

# passwd <username>

8. Create .rhosts and .netrc file on User’s home directory and change ownership (owned by root:system) and permission (640) and (755) respectivity.

# touch .rhosts

# touch .netrc

# chown root:system .rhosts

# chown root:system .netrc

# chmod 640 .rhosts

# chmod 755 .netrc

9. Please update user list on the spreadsheet \\sysdev-dms\Administration\#Inventory-Cfg-hdw-sf-control\1. License\1.1  License Files\License Files file if new user is created on the following servers. Approval needs to be given by ASDM - Xiuming Wu.

dmcdbdv01,02,03

dMCdvqa01,02,03

dmcadmdv01

dmcadmqa01

wdmcdbps01

vimqa03

isas*

If users already existed on any on the above servers, no need to update.

If users are new, add into the list following the alphabetic order.