topic Re: Userid in Operating System - HP-UX

Userid

Cathy Arora — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:58:44 GMT

Hi all;
I created a userid. user can create new files and save etc but can not change .profile file.
umask is 0.
as you can tell new to this area.
I tried reading and followed useradd instructions.
Your help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Userid

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:00:55 GMT

What are the permissions on the users .profile file? Is it owned by the user or by another id, maybe root?

You first need to make sure the permissions on the .profile file are such that the user is allowed to modify it.

Re: Userid

RAC_1 — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:03:51 GMT

umask defines the permissions that are applicable to files that are created.

With umask 0 if you create the file everyone will have read/write access to the file

Check the permissions on .profile file.

ll file.

Re: Userid

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:03:55 GMT

First of all a umask of 000 is dangerous and should probably be set to 022 or at worst 002 BUT that is not your problem.

Cd to the user's home directory and do an ls -la. I suspect that the permissions of .profile are either too restrictive or (more likely the file is owned by another user -- possibly root).

I would do this:

chown myuser:users .profile
(where myuser:users is the desired user:group of this user)
chmod 750 .profile

Re: Userid

Cathy Arora — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:09 GMT

user wanted to change umask to 022 but she can not edit .profile because permissions are read only.
what is the procedure to proerly create new user?
Once i created userid with useradd
I am supposed to give rwx permission to that user for his/her home directory.
Thanks again;