topic Re: Alpha in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

Alpha

Nobody's Hero — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:03:55 GMT

I know this probably is not the place to ask. However I have an older vax system running DEC digital-UNIX version V4.0 878 alpha. Does anyone know the executable name for the admin utility, to add and delete users through a gui?

Re: Alpha

S.K. Chan — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:16:58 GMT

Not sure about this ..
try /usr/bin/X11/dxacounts
http://www2.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/man2html?dxaccounts(8X)

Re: Alpha

Helen French — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:19:23 GMT

I am not sure about, but try this command:

# sysman

Re: Alpha

Ramkumar Devanathan — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:23:46 GMT

Hi,

Try this -

# sysman
select - Accounts
select - - Manage Local Users

This works on a Compaq Tru64 machine (Don't have a vax running - never seen one!).

Aside -

Ever knew a bunch of vax machines is referred to as 'vaxen'?

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?vaxen

HTH.
- ramd.

Re: Alpha

Paul Sperry — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:32:08 GMT

dxaccounts - Graphical interface for account administration

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/X11/dxaccounts

DESCRIPTION

The Account Manager application, dxaccounts, helps you manage user accounts

Re: Alpha

Helen French — Wed, 21 May 2003 19:51:37 GMT

This command comparison chart will help you when working in different flavors of Unix:

http://www.unixguide.net/unixguide.shtml

Re: Alpha

Christian Klein_1 — Wed, 21 May 2003 20:27:35 GMT

That's actually Digital Unix v4.0D (try the output of 'sizer -v' instead of 'uname -a')

The system is also not a VAX if it is running 4.0d. Digital Unix and Tru64 run on systems with alpha processors.

/usr/sbin/setup is a curses gui (runs in a terminal) that can probably do what you wish to do. As others have mentioned, sysman and dxaccounts are also present at that operating system level also.

Hope this helps,

Christian Klein

Re: Alpha

Dave Bechtold — Wed, 21 May 2003 20:47:06 GMT

Hello,

Just wanted to add some clarification to some of this information relative to Tru64 UNIX releases.

V5.X -> # /usr/sbin/sysman accounts
This will start the Sysman Accounts GUI/Character-Cell interface, this is a different interface from dxaccounts, but similar.

V5.X -> # /usr/bin/X11/dxaccounts
The recommended GUI for adding/modifing user accounts.

V5.X & V4.X -> # /usr/sbin/useradd or usermod
Character-cell interfaces to add and modify user accounts.

V4.X -> # /usr/bin/X11/dxaccounts
The recommended GUI for adding/modifing user accounts. The sysman utility is/was not an option under v4.X releases, it was new in V5.0.

V2.X & 3.X # /usr/tcb/bin/XIsso or XSysAdmin
GUI's for adding/modifing user accounts.

The dxaccounts and useradd/usermod utilities on V4.X and V5.X support both BASE and ENHANCED (C2) security configurations for adding and modifying accounts.

Regards,
Dave Bechtold