you have to know that useradmin useradd userdel and so have nothing to do with /etc/passwd

userad,in add been historically added to support telnet administration for different <admin user> thus being able to know wo do what (administrativelly speaking)

next, this useradmin function was extended to support the user creation able to connect bu CIFS on the netapp (it creates local account)
(in the past, you have to edit /etc/passwd and explicit a mapping with /etc/usermap.cfg...)

in either case, this command doesn't modify the /etc/passwd file

it is true that this command is not ... um, very coherent
i think it had been integrated in the netapp to allow function that were in need...

i had the same question from a customer : is it possible to change the passwd for a user created with useradmin
the answer is no : you have to delete and recreate the user

bye

Michael Christian wrote:
RE: ssh scripts

Next question.  I want to automate user administration.  The whole ‘useradmin useradd’ thing with its interactive interface and live password addition (who the heck only lets root set a user’s pasword?) is probably not going to work with our 500+ filers.  500xNumberOfAdmins.  Yeah, right.

 

The docs point to fairly standard /etc/[passwd,shadow,group] files, but having added a user, I still don’t see them on my box.  Has anyone automated user management?

 

-MikeC

 

From: Michael Christian
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 9:08 PM
To: 'Potakamuri, Sreenivasa'; Thorsten.Lemke@computacenter.com; bparent@calvin.ucsd.edu
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ssh scripts

 

Nice, that did it.  Thanks.  User-level auditing will be a godsend.

 

-MikeC

 

From: Potakamuri, Sreenivasa [mailto:Sreenivasa.Potakamuri@netapp.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:53 PM
To: Michael Christian; Thorsten.Lemke@computacenter.com; bparent@calvin.ucsd.edu
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ssh scripts

 

This problem has been fixed in 6.4.5, 6.5.1 and above.

Bug number for this problem is 90495.

 

 

Regards,

Sreeni

Network Appliance

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Christian [mailto:mchristi@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Thu 10/28/2004 11:07 AM
To: Thorsten.Lemke@computacenter.com; bparent@calvin.ucsd.edu
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: ssh scripts

On a similar note, I've been trying to get user-level auditing working
using ssh.  When you telnet in, it logs actions under your userid, but
when you ssh in, it logs everything as root.  (Presumably because sshd
is running as root?)

Has anyone else had this problem, or know of a workaround?

This is 6.5X18

-Mike ***************************************