Solaris 8 User Administration

Overview/Description
To describe how to perform basic user administration tasks in the Solaris operating environment

Target Audience
Trainee system administrators of Solaris and experienced system administrators of other operating systems moving to Solaris

Prerequisites
Familiarity with using or managing a computer system running under any variant of UNIX; experience interacting with a Solaris operating environment as an end-user, using the vi text editor, and working with a windowing system

Expected Duration
250 Minutes

Objectives:

Solaris 8 User Administration

  • explain how to log in, log out, and change the login password in a Solaris system.
  • explain how to add user accounts to a Solaris system.
  • describe the contents of the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group files.
  • explain how to manage user and group accounts.
  • add and modify a user group in Solaris.
  • explain the function of the different initialization files and how to customize the user environment.
  • perform basic process management in Solaris 8.
  • explain how to report active process statistics in Solaris.
  • kill a process in Solaris.
  • schedule jobs for execution using the at command and crontab file.
  • schedule jobs using the at and crontab commands.
  • describe how to display, add, and remove software packages in Solaris 8 using commands.
  • describe how to display, add, and delete software packages in Solaris 8 using GUIs.
  • add a software package using the pkgadd command and check its details.
  • discuss how to source software patches and describe their characteristics.
  • explain how to check, install, and remove patches.
  • manage patches in Solaris.


    • Course Number: 40537_eng