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[Nobody's Hero]

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?

[S.K. Chan]

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

[Helen French]

I am not sure about, but try this command:

# sysman

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

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.

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

dxaccounts - Graphical interface for account administration

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/X11/dxaccounts

DESCRIPTION

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

[Helen French]

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

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

[Christian Klein_1]

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

[Dave Bechtold]

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