Chapter 4 Configuring Users and Groups

You can control who has access to your system, its files, and its processes.

Authorized users gain access to the system by supplying a valid user name (login name) and password. Each user is defined by an entry in the file/etc/passwd. You can use HP SMH to add, remove, deactivate, reactivate, or modify a user account.

For additional information about passwords, refer to passwd(4) and passwd(1). To manually change user account entries, use the /usr/sbin/vipw command to edit /etc/passwd; see vipw(1M) for details.

For security information, see the HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide: Security Management.

You can add a user in several ways:

Consider performing the following tasks for your new user: