Importing existing passwd and group file to aix 3.1

[Andrew Dawson]

In <532 at texhrc.UUCP> ldm at texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) writes:

> ...... When one copies the password
> file over one can log in as a user but an error message is created about
> being unable to set terminal permission and the user is logged off.
> Trying via telent yields similar results and a message that the 
> connection was closed. 

We had this problem once. It was caused by a blank line at the top of
/etc/group. It may be worth checking for something silly like this.

> A second related question. We have a central administration for uid's.
> If one creates a user using SMIT how can one set the uid for the user
> short of going thru the change user mechanism?

This is quite difficult. SMIT seems to allocate uid's on a next free basis.
I think there is a file in /etc/security (.ids ???) containing the next number
to allocate. You may be able to edit this just before running smit mkuser.


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