Section G.3. User Management Tasks

Table G-3 shows differences in Linux and Solaris user management tasks.

Table G-3. ^[*] User Management Tasks
Task/Location	Solaris	Linux
Run multiple tasks in a GUI environment	`admintool`	In RHEL: `system-config-users` In SLES: `yast2`
Add a user	`useradd`	`useradd`
Remove a user	`userdel`	`userdel`
Change a user	`usermod`	`usermod`
List users	`listusers`	N/A
Password files	etc/passwd and /etc/shadow	/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
Group files	/etc/group	/etc/group
Process resource limits for users	N/A	/etc/security/limits.conf
System-wide environment file	N/A	/etc/profile
Configuration information for user authentication	/etc/pam.conf	/etc/login.defs
Profile templates	/etc/skel/	/etc/skel/

^[*] Table A-4 of IBM Redbook