Solaris™ Operating Environment Boot Camp

The Implementation

Now we're ready to move on and add some users to our system. We've chosen to add the four listed in Table 3.2.

Table 3.2. User Details

Real Name	Login Name	UID	Group	GID
Test User	testuser	500	test	100
System Administrator	sysadmin	1000	sysadmin	14
Mike Smith	msmith	1001	staff	10
John Green	jgreen	1002	staff	10

The reasons for selecting these users are as follows:

• Test User: Creating this user allows us to test a variety of things, such as login scripts and checking initialization files, safe in the knowledge that we won't damage the running system. For this reason, test users will also be maintained along with all the standard users, although they will be placed in their own group.

• System Administrator: One of our important users. These users will ...