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Check this checkbox when you want to store this user account information in the LDAP

directory server.

8. Click on Submit.

Figure 3-5 shows the Create Generic User Accounts form.

Figure 3-5 Creating Generic User Accounts

For example, suppose you specify guest as the prefix and 3 as the number of users. If no existing

user name matches the specified prefix (guest), the Administration utility creates accounts for

guest1, guest2, and guest3. If any of the combinations of prefix and number results in an

existing account name, the utility increments the number by one and tests to be sure this results

in a unique account name. For example, if guest1 exists, the Administration utility creates

accounts for guest2, guest3, and guest4. If guest3 also exists, the utility creates accounts

for guest2, guest4, and guest5, and so on, until three unique accounts are created.

There is no limit to the number of generic user-name prefixes you can specify, and each of these

generic user-name prefixes can have from 1 through 999 accounts created for it.

Because creating a large number of accounts can take time, generic account creation runs as a

background process. You can use the Administration utility for other purposes while this

background process runs. Any errors that occur are logged in the

/usr/internet/admin/log/addgenuser.log file.

3.4 Creating a Noncaptive Account for a UNIX System User

To create a noncaptive account for a UNIX system user, follow these steps:

1. From the Manage Users menu, choose Create System User Account.

2. From the Manage Users menu, choose Create System User Account.

3. Specify the user's login name in the Login Name field (see Section 3.1.1: Specifying User

Names). The login name (and UID) you assign to the account are recorded in the

/etc/passwd file.

4. Specify the login directory for this account in the Login Directory field. You must specify

the full path of the user's login directory on the local system. For example, if the system

account login name is vpr, then specify the login directory as parent_dir/vpr. If the

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