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
           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)

     Solaris 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+.