I apologize if this is a simple/stupid question. When I add users in smit as root, many(most) of the fields are automatically popluated with some basic default values.
Some other admins here have access to create users via sudo, however when they create users (sudo smit users), the user gets added to /etc/passwd but the rest of the user creation process fails. When we go look at that users characteristics, only the username is filled in and the rest of the fields are blank.
Is there something I am missing or can I not have this functionality via sudo?
Thanks in advance
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to expand on this a litte, if I could give them a script that would create users via command line I would gladly go that route. Every script I have tried including starting from pressing F6 during user creation and working from that fails in the same way. It appears to work but when I look at the characteristics of the user, most fields in smit are blank.
Thanks
This is just a test, as you can adjust your script to ask all the important questions instead of hard coding these after you get things working.
Create a shell script that just calls mkuser and has all the values hard coded in it. Of course change all the values in the code below to the correct ones. If you want more values set for this user than what I have included below then adjust as needed.
mkuser pgrp=group groups=group gecos=fullname home=directory_if_other_than_default_/home shell=/bin/ksh loginname
Give the admin access to this shell script through sudo. The will run the mkuser command with root authority.
Now what values are missing for this new user that you expect to be there?
Just my two cents on how I would troubleshoot this as there are lots of other ways.
If you don't like this process then that's your choice.
I did add "smitty user" in my sudo file and ran it as a non root user and it populated all the fields just as if I run it as root. So if you have it set up the same way then maybe it's some sort of sudo bug.
No, I do like that process and will look into all the values that are set.
When you did this, did you see the process through to the end then go back and look at the created user? The reason I ask is this. When I do that, it appears as all the values are set. I type in the username and press enter, then when I look at the created user, its missing everything except the username. Just curious more than anything.
I did follow through with the "smitty user" process and it all looks good compared to a user added using the root id. I filled in the follow fields and only those fields and left the others either blank or at the default.
User Name
Primary group
Group SET
Initial Program
User Info
Below are the results of
lsuser
run against both ids.
User created with my id using sudo.
root@foobar:"/home/root/dr $ "lsuser timer
timer id=217 pgrp=usr groups=usr home=/home/timer shell=/bin/ksh gecos=Test user login=true su=true rlogin=true daemon=true admin=false
sugroups=ALL admgroups= tpath=nosak ttys=ALL expires=0 auth1=SYSTEM auth2=NONE umask=22 registry=files SYSTEM=compat
logintimes= loginretries=6 pwdwarntime=7 account_locked=false minage=0 maxage=0 maxexpired=-1 minalpha=0 minother=0 mindiff=0
maxrepeats=8 minlen=8 histexpire=0 histsize=0 pwdchecks= dictionlist= fsize=2097151 cpu=-1 data=262144 stack=65536 core=2097151
rss=65536 nofiles=2000 roles=
Id created using the root id.
root@woody:"/home/root/dr $ "lsuser timer2
timer2 id=218 pgrp=usr groups=usr home=/home/timer2 shell=/bin/ksh gecos=Test id2 login=true su=true rlogin=true daemon=true admin=false
sugroups=ALL admgroups= tpath=nosak ttys=ALL expires=0 auth1=SYSTEM auth2=NONE umask=22 registry=files SYSTEM=compat
logintimes= loginretries=6 pwdwarntime=7 account_locked=false minage=0 maxage=0 maxexpired=-1 minalpha=0 minother=0 mindiff=0
maxrepeats=8 minlen=8 histexpire=0 histsize=0 pwdchecks= dictionlist= fsize=2097151 cpu=-1 data=262144 stack=65536 core=2097151
rss=65536 nofiles=2000 roles=