User profiles administration commands

AIX User administration commands

• mkuser Creates a new user
• smitty mkuser

• passwd Creates or changes the password of a user

• chuser Changes user attributes (except password)

• lsuser Lists user attributes

• rmuser Removes a user and its attributes

• chsec Changes security related stanzas

• login Initiates a user session

• who Identifies the users currently logged in

• dtconfig Enables or disables the desktop autostart feature

AIX User administration files

• /etc/security/environ Contains the environment attributes for users

• /etc/security/lastlog Contains the last login attributes for users

• /etc/security/limits Contains process resource limits for users

• /etc/security/user Contains extended attributes for users

• /usr/lib/security/mkuser.default Contains the default attributes for new users

• /usr/lib/security/mkuser.sys Customizes new user accounts

• /etc/passwd Contains the basic attributes of users

• /etc/security/passwd Contains password information

• /etc/security/login.cfg Contains configuration information for login and user authentication

• /etc/utmp Contains the record of users logged into the system

• /var/adm/wtmp Contains connect time accounting records

• /etc/security/failedlogin Records all failed login attempts

• /etc/motd Contains the message to be displayed every time a user logs in to the system

• /etc/environment Specifies the basic environment for all processes

• /etc/profile Specifies additional environment settings for all users

• $HOME/.profile Specifies environment settings for specific user needs

• /etc/group Contains the basic attributes of groups

• /etc/security/group Contains the extended attributes of groups