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Decommissioning servers
Does anyone out there have a good procedure in place that they use when decommisioning servers. Like a checklist of things to do to ensure data security etc? Thanks! -
Roles for creating users and managing pwds
Thanks for the info, but I tried running passwd matt and it wanted to know "Matt's Old password". But of course I hadn't set one. That is the issue. Also, I think that 'sec_user' had to be in the "security" group to have the ManageAllUsers role. SO it was in there before I tested. -
User creation templates
Thanks for the tips. These were all good. -
User creation templates
I see what you are saying now. I want to be able to say here are the default settings for all new users, not all users. I backed up the /etc/security/users file and then modified these settings under the default stanza: loginretries = 3 minalpha = 1 minother = 1... -
Roles for creating users and managing pwds
I am experimenting with roles on aix 5.3. I did a chrole to add these authorizations to the ManageAllUsers role: UserAdmin,User Audit,PasswdAdmin,GroupAdmin,PasswdManage. I added the role to user sec_user. I did a mkuser matt. That worked fine. I tried to set the password for matt by doing... -
User creation templates
Thanks for the help! I think I am leaning more towards setting the parmams that I want for all users in the default stanza and then if I need to I can always make changes for exceptions to the default. Make sense? Thanks! -
User creation templates
Is there a file I can edit that will make all users I create have default values? On AIX 5.3. Thanks!
