useradm
Solaris 11.4 has a new tool to ease the administration of user accounts. It’s called useradm
. It can be used to add,modify, delete and list users themself and the configuration properties of this users.
For example you can list the properties like this:
However possibly most interesting the the ncurses based interactive interface to useradm add
and useradm modify
It’s not just interesting that you can do administrative task with it, but that it shows many of the features of Solaris configurable per user at one place. In case you want to try it, you have to install it with pkg install useradm
. In case you see an error message when adding a user, please start again and commit the user first before trying to change the setting which led to the error message.
Do you want to learn more?
Managing User Accounts and User Environments in Oracle® Solaris 11.4 - About the useradm Application