HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups

The Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) tool allows the user to manage local user accounts, NIS user accounts and group accounts. The Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) tool provides both a web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Text User Interface (TUI).

In the 11i v3 release, the Managing Users and Groups functional area in the legacy HP-UX Systems Administration Manager (SAM) application is replaced with the new SMH Text User Interface.

You can use the HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups tool for:

The Accounts for Users and Groups tool (ugweb) can be launched from the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH), or from the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). In HP-UX 11i v3, the tool can also be launched using the ugweb command.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The Accounts for Users and Groups tool has the following new features:

• New Text User Interface (TUI) in place of the legacy SAM interface

• New web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• Improved performance with the new TUI interface

• Supports long username and groups

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

The Accounts for Users and Groups tool has the following new features:

• New Text User Interface (TUI) in place of the legacy SAM interface

• Supports long user names and group names

• NIS and Shadow mode can co-exist

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously listed.

Compatibility

The known compatibility issues in the 11i v3 release are as follows:

• The /etc/sam/rmuser.excl and /etc/sam/rmfiles.excl files are not supported. These files were used earlier to add users and directories that must be excluded from removal using the HP SAM application.

• UID and passwds are passed as empty strings to task customization scripts.

• Currently, users cannot use the Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) tool to add/modify passwords of NIS users when the system is configured for alternate password files in NIS and Shadow mode. Users can use appropriate commands to manipulate the passwords of NIS users.

• Templates created using the legacy SAM application will not work with the Accounts for Users and Groups tool.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

• Accounts for Users and Groups Online Help

• ugweb(1M) manpage

• sam(1M) and smh(1M) manpages

Obsolescence

Not applicable.