admintool

 

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 Maintenance Commands                                admintool(1M)
 
 
 


NAME
      admintool - system  administration  with  a  graphical  user
      interface
 


SYNOPSIS
      /usr/bin/admintool
 


DESCRIPTION
      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 per-
      missions (where applicable).
 
      Help is available by using the Help button.
 
      admintool is not the tool for a distributed environment.  It
      is used for local adminstration.
 
 USAGE
      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. admin-
            tool  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  ser-
            vices.  admintool sets up the software services neces-
            sary to use a modem or terminal attached to a system's
            serial port.
 
      Manage software
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 23 Jan 1995                    1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maintenance Commands                                admintool(1M)
 
 
 
            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.
 
 EXIT STATUS
      admintool terminates with exit status 0.
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWadmap                   |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      group(4), hosts(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)
 
      OpenWindows Advanced User's Guide
 
 WARNINGS
      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.
 


NOTES
      admintool modifies files on the local system, i.e., the sys-
      tem  on  which you are running admintool. admintool does not
      modify or update global networked databases such as  NIS  or
      NIS+.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SunOS 5.8           Last change: 23 Jan 1995                    2
 
 
 

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