Adding users with trusted systems

[Travis Harp]

I've been adding user via sam for a while now but I'm trying to develop a script to make this task less time consuming.

Does the useradd.sam command work correctly when used on a trusted system and is there anything that I need to know before going forward?

Thanks

[Camel_1]

useradd command works the same on btoh trusted/notrusted system.

Simon

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

/usr/sbin/useradd command should workwell with your scripts.

-USA..

[Hoefnix]

just tested and useradd works in trusted system.
regards,

Peter

[Darren Prior]

Hi Travis,

The main point you should know is that it's not supported to use the useradd.sam script. It's only designed to be used internally by SAM and it's possible that it could get changed by a patch.

Please also consider assigning points to those that have given their time to help you. It's free, plus it helps others decide which answers have been useful.

regards,

Darren.

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Travis,

As noted /usr/sbin/useradd (and /usr/sbin/groupadd as well) work the same in both envs.
Would be used as follows:

/usr/sbin/useradd -u UID -g GID -d /home/username -m -s /usr/bin/ksh -c "Comments here - maybe full name" username

The GID must exist or you'll have to create it fisrt - with groupadd if you wish.
The home dir can be wherever you normally put them & the -m states to make (create) the dir if it doesn't exist. We use the -c for full user name & affiliation (what group they're with or phone #, etc.). And of course you can give them whatever valid shell you wish or they want.

HTH,
Jeff

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Useradd is the command you should be using as pointed already.

However, with useradd you will not be able to set the password. If you have an encrypted password for the user (you can generate the encrypted password using the 'makekey' command in /usr/lib) and add it using the command

/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p abjHqL18xWq0A user

Here abjHqL18xWq0A is the encrypted password.

-Sri

[Mic V.]

I hacked out a C program to handle setting the password with straight useradd. It just did getpwent, etc. Wasn't too bad once I thought it out. Sorry, can't post the code.

[Bill Hassell]

Attached is a really simple C program to generate an encrypted password. usermod.sam has not changed in several revs and still works to modify the password (whether Trusted or not) in both 11.0 and 11.11 (and 10.20 for that matter). So you can use the output of this program as the encrypted password to pass to usermod.sam

[Travis Harp]

Ok I'm making some good progress here thanks to everyone's help but I'm having an issue getting the password set.

I've been using makekey to get the encrypted password as suggested but when I use the usermod.sam -p it doesn't seem to take.

As a test I tried to su to one of these accounts and the password I just put in doesn't work, I've tried it unencrypted as well with no better results.

What am I doing wrong here?