rolemod(1M) System Administration Commands rolemod(1M)NAMErolemod - modify a role's login information on the system
SYNOPSISrolemod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group [, group...]]
[-d dir [-m]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name]
[-f inactive] [-e expire]
[-A authorization [, authorization]]
[-P profile [, profile]] [-K key=value] role
DESCRIPTION
The rolemod utility modifies a role's login information on the system.
It changes the definition of the specified login and makes the appro‐
priate login-related system file and file system changes.
The system file entries created with this command have a limit of 512
characters per line. Specifying long arguments to several options may
exceed this limit.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-A authorization
One or more comma separated authorizations as deined in
auth_attr(4). Only role with grant rights to the authorization can
assign it to an account. This replaces any existing authorization
setting. If no authorization list is specified, the existing set‐
ting is removed.
-c comment
Specify a comment string. comment can be any text string. It is
generally a short description of the login, and is currently used
as the field for the user's full name. This information is stored
in the user's /etc/passwd entry.
-d dir
Specify the new home directory of the role. It defaults to
base_dir/login, where base_dir is the base directory for new login
home directories, and login is the new login.
-e expire
Specify the expiration date for a role. After this date, no role
will be able to access this login. The expire option argument is a
date entered using one of the date formats included in the template
file /etc/datemsk. See getdate(3C).
For example, you may enter 10/6/90 or October 6, 1990. A value of
`` '' defeats the status of the expired date.
-f inactive
Specify the maximum number of days allowed between uses of a login
ID before that login ID is declared invalid. Normal values are pos‐
itive integers. A value of 0 defeats the status.
-g group
Specify an existing group's integer ID or character-string name. It
redefines the role's primary group membership.
-G group
An existing group's integer ID or character-string name. It defines
the new user's supplementary group membership. Duplicates between
group with the -g and -G options are ignored. No more than
NGROUPS_MAX groups can be specified. GIDs 0-99 are reserved for
allocation by the Solaris Operating System.
-K key=value
Replace existing or add to a role's key=value pair attributes. Mul‐
tiple -K options can be used to replace or add multiple key=value
pairs. However, keys must not be repeated. The generic -K option
with the appropriate key may be used instead of the specific
implied key options (-A and -P). See user_attr(4) for a list of
valid key=value pairs.
The keyword type can be specified with the value role or the value
normal. When using the value normal, the account changes from a
role user to a normal user; using the value role keeps the account
a role user.
-l new_logname
Specify the new login name for the role. The new_logname argument
is a string no more than eight bytes consisting of characters from
the set of alphabetic characters, numeric characters, period (.),
underline (_), and hypen (−). The first character should be alpha‐
betic and the field should contain at least one lower case alpha‐
betic character. A warning message will be written if these
restrictions are not met. A future Solaris release may refuse to
accept login fields that do not meet these requirements. The
new_logname argument must contain at least one character and must
not contain a colon (:) or NEWLINE (\n).
-m
Move the role's home directory to the new directory specified with
the -d option. If the directory already exists, it must have per‐
missions read/write/execute by group, where group is the role's
primary group.
-o
This option allows the specified UID to be duplicated (non-unique).
-P profile
One or more comma-separated execution profiles defined in
auth_attr(4). This replaces any existing profile setting. If no
profile list is specified, the existing setting is removed.
-s shell
Specify the full pathname of the program that is used as the role's
shell on login. The value of shell must be a valid executable file.
-u uid
Specify a new UID for the role. It must be a non-negative decimal
integer less than MAXUID as defined in <param.h>. The UID associ‐
ated with the role's home directory is not modified with this
option; a role will not have access to their home directory until
the UID is manually reassigned using chown(1).
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
login
An existing login name to be modified.
EXIT STATUS
In case of an error, rolemod prints an error message and exits with one
of the following values:
2
The command syntax was invalid. A usage message for the rolemod
command is displayed.
3
An invalid argument was provided to an option.
4
The uid given with the -u option is already in use.
5
The password files contain an error. pwconv(1M) can be used to cor‐
rect possible errors. See passwd(4).
6
The login to be modified does not exist, the group does not exist,
or the login shell does not exist.
8
The login to be modified is in use.
9
The new_logname is already in use.
10
Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file. Other update
requests will be implemented.
11
Insufficient space to move the home directory (-m option). Other
update requests will be implemented.
12
Unable to complete the move of the home directory to the new home
directory.
FILES
/etc/group
system file containing group definitions
/etc/datemsk
system file of date formats
/etc/passwd
system password file
/etc/shadow
system file containing users' and roles' encrypted passwords and
related information
/etc/user_attr
system file containing additional user and role attributes
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcs │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Committed │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOchown(1), passwd(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), group‐
mod(1M), logins(1M), pwconv(1M), roleadd(1M), roledel(1M), useradd(1M),
userdel(1M), usermod(1M), getdate(3C), auth_attr(4), passwd(4),
attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 12 Nov 2009 rolemod(1M)
