smit logintimes error 1

[RCPD700]

Forgive the rookie question, but we just migrated off a z/OS mainframe to p500 servers running AIX 5.3 and I'm trying to get oriented to the new OS.

I'm trying to set the logintimes with smit for a specific user that I want to limit to logging in Mon-Fri between 0600-1800 hours.

I've tried logintimes = 1-5:0600-1800
1-5,:0600-1800
1-5 :0600-1800
1-5

Every attempt resulted with the message:
[blue]3004-692 Error changing "logintimes" to "1-5:0600-1800" : Value is invalid.[/blue]

What's the "magic" format? It doesn't seem to adhere to anything I've read so far.


Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide

 

[MoreFeo]

Try mon-fri:0800-1800

 

[RCPD700]

Entering mon-fri:0800-1800 worked just fine. System didn't complain about a thing. Apparently the single digit day specification for [blue]Allowed LOGIN TIMES[/blue] applies to AIX version 6, not to version 5.

I need to find a good AIX reference. Having to learn things "on the fly" is not much fun.

Thank you very much for the assistance!

 

[MoreFeo]

Thanks for the star.

If you have AIX v5, I recommend you this link:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp

It's the AIX 5.3 infocenter, you'll find all the man pages, and a lot more stuff.

If you've worked with mainframe I suppose you know infocenter, but if not take also a look here:

http://www.ibm.com/support/publications/us/library/

It's the list of available infocenters (HW, SW, OS).

And also, always good to look at the redbooks (

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com).