Inside Solaris™ 9

Managing User and Group Accounts from the Command Line

Another way to manage user accounts is from the command line. Although using the command line is more complex than using the Admintool GUI interface, the command line provides a little more flexibility. Solaris supplies the user administration commands described in Table 13.4 for setting up and managing user accounts.

Table 13.4. Account Administration Commands

Command	Description
useradd	Adds a new user account
userdel	Deletes a user account
usermod	Modifies a user account
groupadd	Adds a new group
groupmod	Modifies a group (for example, changes the group ID or name)
groupdel	Deletes a group

Adding User Accounts from the Command Line

You can add new user accounts on the local ...