Availability of Solaris Management Commands

This series of tables lists commands that perform the same tasks as the Solaris management tools. For information on diskless client support, see Chapter 7, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks).

Solaris System Management Commands

This table describes the commands that provide the same functionality as the Solaris management tools. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. Some of these commands are for the local system only. Others commands operate in a name service environment. See the appropriate man page and refer to the D option.

Table 1.7. Descriptions for Solaris Management Commands

Command

Description

Man Page

smc

Starts the Solaris Management Console

smc ( 1M )

smcron

Manages crontab jobs

smcron ( 1M )

smdiskless

Manages diskless client support

smdiskless ( 1M )

smexec

Manages entries in the exec_attr database

smexec ( 1M )

smgroup

Manages group entries

smgroup ( 1M )

smlog

Manages and views WBEM log files

smlog ( 1M )

smmultiuser

Manages bulk operations on multiple user accounts

smmultiuser ( 1M )

smosservice

Adds Operating System (OS) services and diskless client support

smosservice ( 1M )

smprofile

Manages profiles in the prof_attr and exec_attr databases

smprofile ( 1M )

smrole

Manages roles and users in role accounts

smrole ( 1M )

smserialport

Manages serial ports

smserialport ( 1M )

smuser

Manages user entries

smuser ( 1M )

This table describes the commands you can use to manage RBAC from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage RBAC information in a name service environment.

Table 1.8. RBAC Command Descriptions

Command

Description

References

auths

Displays authorizations granted to a user

auths ( 1 )

profiles

Displays execution profiles for a user

profiles ( 1 )

roleadd

Adds a new role to the system

roleadd ( 1M )

roles

Displays roles granted to a user

roles ( 1 )

This table describes the commands you can use to manage users, groups, and RBAC features from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage user and group information in a name service environment.

Table 1.9. Solaris User/Group Command Descriptions

Command

Description

References

useradd, usermod, userdel

Adds, modifies, or removes a user

useradd ( 1M ) , usermod ( 1M ) , userdel ( 1M )

groupadd, groupmod, groupdel

Adds, modifies, or removes a group

groupadd ( 1M ) , groupmod ( 1M ) , groupdel ( 1M )

Solaris 8 System Management Commands

All the commands that are listed in Table 1–8 and Table 1–9 are available in the Solaris 8 release.