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This cheat sheet gives you a quick guide to the differences betw een user adm inistration com m ands on
AIX and other UNIX-derived operating system s.
Many administration activities that work on other UNIXderived operating systems, such as Linux and Solaris, work
without change on AIX. But user administration
commands are an exception. IBM has its own unique
commands that operate similarly to legacy UNIX, but you
have to know the equivalents. For example, rather than the
UNIX standard "adduser" command, AIX has "mkuser."
This cheat sheet gives you a quick guide to the differences
so that you can exploit user administration tools and
techniques you find in user forums and elsewhere on the web.
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Here's a list of the most common UNIX user commands and their AIX equivalents:
Function
UNIX Command
AIX Command
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Create a user
useradd
mkuser
Change a user
usermod
chuser
Delete a user
userdel
rmuser
usermod -s
chsh or passwd -s
passwd -l
chuser login=false
Other useroriented
AIX Command
Change password
passwd
whoami
who or w
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One thing AIX is famous for is giving administrators powerful commands that other
UNIX variants lack. For user admin, AIX has the following unique yet useful commands.
For example, to list all the users on the system, UNIX admins can only dump the
/etc/passwd file. And to add or remove a users from a privilege control file, such as
/etc/ftpusers, standard UNIX calls for directly editing the fileintroducing the possiblity
of devastating syntax errors. AIX has dedicated commands for these actions. Here's a
summary of AIX "power" user commands:
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Function
AIX Command
lsuser <username>
lsuser ALL
lsuser -a ALL
usrck -t ALL
ruser -a -f or ruser -d -f
ruser -a -p or ruser -d -p
ruser -a -c or ruser -d -c
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Armed with this cheat sheet, you're ready to begin adapting scripts and tricks from other
UNIXes for your own AIX edification!
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