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Chapter 8 Working with Users and Groups 113
3 Authenticate as an administrator by entering the following command, replacing
adminusername with your administrator user name, and entering your administrator
password when prompted:
> auth
adminusername
4 Remove the group by entering the following command, replacing officegroup with the
group account’s short name:
> delete
officegroup
5 Quit dscl by entering:
> quit
Adding a User to a Group
You can add users to a group using the dscl tool.
To add a user to a group:
1 Start the dscl tool in interactive mode, specifying the computer you are using as the
source of directory service data:
$ dscl localhost
>
2 Change the current folder to /LDAPv3/ipaddress/Groups by entering the path at the
prompt:
> cd /LDAPv3/
ipaddress
/Groups
Replace
ipaddress
with the IP address of your directory server. If using a NetInfo
directory domain, enter cd /NetInfo/root/Users at the prompt.
3 Authenticate as an administrator by entering the following command, replacing
adminusername with your administrator user name, and entering your administrator
password when prompted:
> auth
adminusername
4 Add the user to the group by entering the following command, replacing ajohnson
with the short name of the user account and officegroup with the short name of the
group account:
> append
admin
Member
adminusername
This creates an administrator user, but it does not add the GUID (globally unique
identifier) of the administrator user to the group account. This may cause security and
compatibility issues.
5 Add the administrator user to the admin group.
> append
admin
GroupMembers
guid