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admintool - system administration with a graphical user interface
/usr/bin/admintool
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admintool is a graphical user interface
that enables you to accomplish several system administration tasks on
a local system. Membership in the sysadmin group (gid 14) is used to restrict
access to administrative tasks. Members of the sysadmin group can use
admintool to create, delete, and modify local system files. Non-members
have read-only permissions (where applicable).
Help is available by using
the Help button.
Note: admintool is not the tool for a distributed environment.
It is used for local adminstration.
admintool allows you to do the
following tasks:
- Manage users
- Use admintool to add, delete, or modify
user accounts. admintool makes the appropriate changes to the system’s /etc/passwd
file (see passwd(4)
).
- Manage groups
- Use admintool to add, delete, or modify
groups. admintool makes the appropriate changes to the system’s /etc/group
file (see group(4)
).
- Manage hosts
- Use admintool to add, delete, or modify
hosts. admintool makes the appropriate changes to the system’s /etc/hosts
file (see hosts(4)
).
- Manage printers
- Use admintool to add or delete access
to a printer, or to modify a system’s printer access. admintool makes the
appropriate changes to the system’s /etc/lp directory.
- Manage serial port
services
- Use admintool to enable or disable serial port services. admintool
sets up the software services necessary to use a modem or terminal attached
to a system’s serial port.
- Manage software
- Use admintool to add or remove
software. admintool adds software from a product CD or on a hard disk to
an installed system, or removes software from an installed system.
admintool terminates with exit status 0.
group(4)
, hosts(4)
,
passwd(4)
If you use admintool to add a host, your local system
and your site uses a network name service such as NIS
or NIS+
, admintool
host operations may not have the desired effect. This is because information
in the network name service will take precedence over the information in
the local /etc/hosts file, which is where admintool updates information.
admintool modifies files on the local system, i.e., the system on which
you are running admintool. admintool does not modify or update global networked
databases such as NIS
or NIS+
.
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