Creating A New User Account - HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual

Creating a New User Account

If you have access to a system administrator, that person may have already set
up a user account for you. Otherwise, you will need to do the following to set
up a user account so that you can interact with the system as non-
not incur the risk of accidentally damaging data.
You usually work in your home directory or \account", and most of your
default les are kept there. As \owner" of this directory and its subdirectories,
you also have control over access to the les in the account.
Using SAM
To create a user account, you will need to use SAM, the System
Administration Manager.
In order to use SAM, you must be logged in as
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by the command prompt \
login account providing unlimited permissions on your system.
This means that you need to take actions more carefully when
you are
administration tasks, and, for security reasons, it should use a
password which is di erent from your everyday user password.
Using HP-UX and System Administration Tasks give you more
details on using SAM.
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