Aix manual commands

For example, to find out more about the FTP command, at the Unix prompt, enter:. If you are unsure which manual item you want to read, you can do a keyword search. At the Unix prompt, enter:. On some systems, you need to replace man -k with apropos. For example, at the Unix prompt, enter:. In both of the examples above, replace keyword with a specific topic for example, ftp , mail. This is document afjm in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on Skip to: content search login. Knowledge Base Toggle local menu Menus About the team.

Knowledge Base Search. Log in. Identity Manager uses the following connections to communicate with the AIX adapter:. Managing users and groups require that the administrator be root or a member of the security group. The adapter supports logging in as a standard user, then performing a su command to switch to root or root-equivalent account to perform administrative activities.

Direct logins as root user are also supported. The adapter also supports the sudo facility version 1. The sudo facility allows a system administrator to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root or another user.

In addition, if sudo is enabled for a resource, its settings will override those configured on the resource definition page for the root user and admin user. Refer to the man page for the sudoers file for more information.

The administrator must be granted privileges to run the following commands with sudo:. Note A test connection can use different command options than a normal provision run. The following table summarizes the provisioning capabilities of this adapter. You can define resource attributes to control the following tasks for all users on this resource:.

The number of unsuccessful login attempts allowed after the last successful login before the system locks the account. The maximum time, in weeks, beyond the maxage value that a user can change an expired password. Permits access to the account from a remote location with the telnet or rlogin commands.

Indicates whether another user can switch to the specified user account with the su command. Use the Identity Manager debug pages to set trace options on the following classes:.

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