HP-UX Overview and Command Summary - page 12

Users Administration

Creating Users

• sam --> user and group accounts
• useradd -g users -d Username

Creating Groups
sam --> user and group accounts
groupadd Groupname

Useful Commands

Command	Description
or \	autocompletion
file *	Show file types, such as "ascii".
find -name -print	Finds a file in the OS at the starting path on down
grep
groups	Shows groups for a user
kmtune	Displays kernel tunable parameters
listusers -g	Lists the users in a group
ln -s	Creates a symbolic link to a file or a directory
pr -o10 -l64 -F -h | lp	prints using margins of 10, page length of 64, header on each page
rcp remote_machine:	remote copy
remsh	opens a remote command shell on the host machine
rlogin	remote login to host machine
sar
set_parms	Change host name (/etc/set_parms)
tail -f	Looks at end of file and keeps it open to watch changes
top	realtime display of processes
uname -a	information about the system
print $(uname -i)16op|dc	prints hex system id
who -u, who -Rm	who is using the system

Process to recover from a lost/forgotten root password

1.     Power off the server

2.     Power on the server

3.     Interupt the boot process during the 10 second interval (display will indicate this on the screen)

4.     bo pri

5.     Answer yes to interact with the ipl

6.     At the prompt "hpux -is" for single user mode

7.     cd /sbin

8.     passwd root  and  follow prompts to put in new password

9.     shutdown -r 0  to reboot to multiuser mode

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