VizLabAccounts

Adding a user to the O2's VizLab

Adding a user to the O2's HPCf VizLab is a multi part process, and it sucks. I'm looking for volunteers to write a (perl|python|shell) script to automate this process. In the meantime, you have to do it like this:

1. Add the user account on dartagnan.hpcf.upr.edu using sgi's System Manager.
2. Copy the user account from /etc/password to /etc/passwd.nis
3. cd to /var/yp, run ./ypmake
4. Delete the user account from /etc/password (yeah, I know)

More documentation should be available at the NfsNisSetup, but isn't (yet).

Adding a user to the HPCf-Linux VizLab

Adding a user to the HPCf-Linux VizLab:

1. Connect to the NFS server (ssh pijuyo.hpcf.upr.edu)
2. Log as root an type adduser "name"(name of the new user)
3. Go to /var/yp directory (cd /var/yp/)
4. Type make to rebuild the passwd table
5. Now, the user can use any of the SGI-Linux machine to test that this instructions work...If you have any problem just contact others man pages...

-- Main.HumbertoOrtiz - 28 Nov 2000

-- Jesus Caban - Feb 7 2001

comments:

Add account manually --humberto, Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:20:15 -0400 reply
You can add accounts to the SGI machines manually like this:

  /usr/sysadm/privbin/addUserAccount -l username -u xxxx -C -H/usr/people/lutful -R -g 20 -G "Some Random User" -S /bin/tcsh -P