DELL 2385P User Manual

Setting Up passwd and group Files 7-5

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In this procedure, you add entries to a passwd file on a UNIX client using a text editor, 

then transfer the file to the filer. You add entries to the passwd file on a UNIX client 

because each entry in the file requires an encrypted password and the filer does not 

have a command for creating passwords. The format for entries in the passwd file is 

as follows:

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To add entries to a passwd file, perform the following steps:

1.

Log in to a UNIX client as the root user.

2. Change to the /etc directory.

3. Make a copy of the existing passwd file under a new name, such as passwd.old.

4. Open the existing passwd file in a text editor.

5. Add an entry for each user who needs access to files.

Leave the password and default shell fields empty. You set passwords in step 8. 

The filer does not use the default shell field.

6. If you did not purchase a license for the NFS protocol, delete any entries from the 

passwd file that are for non-CIFS users.

7.

Save the file and exit the editor.

8. Set a password for each user by entering the following command: 

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The 

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 program prompts you to enter the new password twice.

9. Copy the passwd file from the UNIX client to the /etc directory on the filer.

10. Delete the passwd file from the UNIX client and rename the saved file to 

passwd.

11. Continue with "Adding Entries to the group File."