Solaris™ 10 System Administration Essentials

11. Solaris User Management

The Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) utilizes user accounts for authentication at login. These accounts are also used to grant permissions to access files and to run programs. A user account can be specific to a particular system or for a group of systems on a network. In an enterprise environment, a system administrator typically manages the users and groups for the enterprise by using a centralized naming service or directory service, such as LDAP or NIS. In a smaller environment, user account data is more likely to be stored in local files.

This chapter includes information about managing user accounts and groups and briefly describes the relationship between users and roles. This chapter also includes examples ...