HP-UX

On HP-UX, providing you are not using NIS or NIS+, use the System Administration Manager (SAM) to work with groups.

Creating a group

  1. From the System Administration Manager (SAM), double click Accounts for Users and Groups.
  2. Double click Groups.
  3. Select Add from the Actions pull down to display the Add a New Group panel.
  4. Enter the name of the group and select the users that you want to add to the group.
  5. Click Apply to create the group.

You have now created a group.

Adding a user to a group

  1. From the System Administration Manager (SAM), double click Accounts for Users and Groups.
  2. Double click Groups.
  3. Highlight the name of the group and select Modify from the Actions pull down to display the Modify an Existing Group panel.
  4. Select a user that you want to add to the group and click Add.
  5. If you want to add other users to the group, repeat step 4 for each user.
  6. When you have finished adding names to the list, click OK.

You have now added a user to a group.

Displaying who is in a group

  1. From the System Administration Manager (SAM), double click Accounts for Users and Groups.
  2. Double click Groups.
  3. Highlight the name of the group and select Modify from the Actions pull down to display the Modify an Existing Group panel, showing a list of the users in the group.

The group members are displayed.

Removing a user from a group

  1. From the System Administration Manager (SAM), double click Accounts for Users and Groups.
  2. Double click Groups.
  3. Highlight the name of the group and select Modify from the Actions pull down to display the Modify an Existing Group panel.
  4. Select a user that you want to remove from the group and click Remove.
  5. If you want to remove other users from the group, repeat step 4 for each user.
  6. When you have finished removing names from the list, click OK.

You have now removed a user from a group