How to Create Active Users by Default in Tru64


Problem: In Tru64 with enhanced security, the default is to create new users as "locked", which means that you must unlock each new user by doing a usermod -x administrative_lock_applied=0 newusername

Solution: Show some interesting defaults with useradd -D. Change this one by useradd -D -x administrative_lock_applied=0.

Todo: I'd think this would update a value in /etc/auth/system/default, but it does not seem to. That's also why this is not fixable by edauth -g -dd. Wonder what gets updated then??!


source: Tru64 useradd(8) manpage
date: 03/15/2006