Setting up Accounts on a new VM

✅ CONTENT MIGRATED TO GURU ON FEBRUARY 22, 2024

• Add the user buddy boy with username bboy

useradd -s /bin/csh -c "Buddy Boy user account" -d /users/bboy bboy

• set the user's password

passwd bboy

• add samba user and restart samba service - if this user needs access to the model account through a drive mapping

smbpasswd -a bboy
/etc/init.d/smb restart

NOTE if you want to list the samba users you can do

cat /etc/samba/smbpasswd

• remove the user's home directory

cd /users
rm -rf bboy

• make a new one and copy all files (including hidden) from another user

cd /users
mkdir bboy
cp otherUser/* bboy/
cp otherUser/.cshrc bboy/
cp otherUser/.login bboy/

• set perms of the directory and the files:

chmod 755 bboy
chown -R bboy:bboy bboy
chmod 664 bboy/* bboy/.cshrc bboy/.login

• Add the user to the model accounts they need access to:

vi /etc/group 
- find model and add the new user to allowed to access that account as comma separated list:
- enter "edit mode" by typing "i" then change the line to look like
model1:x:1234:samm,bboy,otherUser
- go back to command mode with <esc> key
- write and quit vi with command:
:wq <enter>

Note: An alternative terminal-based editor to vi is nano.

On the user's client machine they will need a drive mounting to the server.

Make the mount out to the end of the models directory such as say the “N” drive is mounted as:

    \\myserver\models

This process must be done as root logged in through putty to the server

• If the model already exists on another server then get the model's user id from that server (found in the file /etc/passwd using vi or nano) and use the same, if not leave out the “-u userIDFromOtherServer” part of the command below

useradd -s /bin/csh -c "model1 model account" -d /models/model1 -u userIDFromOtherServer model1

• set the model's password

passwd model1

• update group file to have samm in model's group

vi /etc/group 
- find model and add samm and all users allowed to access that account as comma separated list:
- enter "edit mode" by typing "i" then change the line to look like
model1:x:1234:samm,bboy,otherUser
- go back to command mode with <esc> key
- write and quit vi with command:
:wq <enter>

• Move to the models directory

cd /models

• Reconfigure the default directory for this model
• copy all files (including hidden) from some other working model account <modelacct> to model1

cp modelExample/*.init model1/
cp modelExample/*.links model1/
cp modelExample/.cshrc model1/
cp modelExample/.login model1/

• set perms :

chmod 770 model1
chmod g+s model1
chown -R model1:model1 model1
chmod 664 model1/* model1/.cshrc model1/.login

• Put the model file structure onto the model1 accountif it already exists elsewhere or else create it:
  • Model Family Directory Structure