IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration

13.4. User administration tasks

User administration creates users, defines or changes their attributes, and defines the security environment for the users. These topics are discussed in the following sections.

13.4.1. Adding a new user account

The mkuser command creates a new user account. The Name parameter must be a unique 8-byte or less string. By default, the mkuser command creates a standard user account. To create an administrative user account, specify the -a flag.

The mkuser command does not create password information for a user, therefore, the new accounts are disabled until the passwd command is used to add authentication information to the /etc/security/passwd file. The mkuser command only initializes the Password attribute of /etc/passwd ...