Administering users and groups

Administering user accounts
        The Account Manager interface
                Authorization
                About default selections
        Adding and modifying user accounts
                Using account templates
                Removing or retiring a user account
                Reactivating a retired user account
                Setting and changing user and group IDs (UID/GID)
                        Changing ownership of files with an obsolete UID/GID
                Changing user login groups
                Changing a user's group membership
                Changing user login shells
                Login shells
                Restricted shells
                Changing user home directories
                Changing user type
                Changing user priority
                Adding and modifying default environment files
        Managing groups
                About groups
                Adding or modifying a group
                Removing a group
                Setting the group ID for file creation in a directory
                Changing the limit on simultaneous group membership
        Managing passwords
                Setting or changing a user password
                Controlling password expiration
                Controlling password selection
                        Allowing accounts without passwords
                        Preventing users from changing their passwords
                        Allowing users to generate passwords
                        Restricting password obviousness
                        Customizing password checking
                        Setting password length
                Setting passwords for dial-in lines
        Setting login restrictions
                Setting login restrictions on accounts
                Setting login restrictions on terminals
                Locking or unlocking a user account
                Locking or unlocking a terminal
        Assigning user powers
                Assigning subsystem authorizations
                        Primary authorizations
                        Secondary authorizations
                Changing system privileges
                        System privileges and authorizations
                Allowing users to skip login messages
                Allowing users to execute superuser commands
                Accessing other accounts with su(C)
                        Logging su(C) usage
                Controlling the use of job scheduling commands
                        Changing the default permissions for job scheduling
                        Changing the job scheduling permissions for a user
                        Using environment files for the at or batch commands
        Changing the system security profile
                Security profiles
        Understanding account database files
                Configuring database precedence and recovery
                Editing the /etc/passwd file
                Configuring the shadow password file
        Copying user accounts
                Copying user accounts to non-SCO OpenServer systems
                Copying user accounts from SCO XENIX or non-SCO OpenServer systems
                        Password compatibility across UNIX systems
        Troubleshooting the Account Manager
                Illegal specification for a user or group attribute
                Remote administration problem
                Missing or corrupted database files

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