HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

Set Up Users and Groups

In this chapter we'll cover the basics of users on HP-UX systems. Topics such as users, groups, permissions, Virtual Partitions (vPars) and users, and NIS will be covered.

You need to make a few basic decisions about users. Where should users' data be located? Who needs to access data from whom, thereby defining “groups” of users? What kind of particular startup is required by users and applications? Is there a shell that your users prefer?

You will want to put some thought into these important user-related questions. I spend a lot of time working with my customers, rearranging user data, for several reasons. It doesn't fit on a whole disk (for this reason, I strongly recommend using Logical Volume Manager or Veritas Volume ...