Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)

Managing Security
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Assigning an Initial Working Directory
2. Use SAFECOM to add the OSS pathname of the newly created initial working
directory to the user definition as the value for the initial working directory attribute.
Be careful when assigning an initial working directory. Proofread the assignment for
typographical errors and remember to create the initial working directory in the OSS file
system. Some server processes do not give users access to the system if their user
definition has an invalid initial working directory name or if the OSS file system is not
running but an initial working directory is defined.
Creating an Initial Working Directory in the OSS
Environment
To create an initial working directory in the OSS environment, use either the mkdir
command from within the OSS environment or the OSH command from within the
Guardian environment.
The following OSS shell command creates the OSS file-system directory
/home/henrysp from within the OSS environment:
mkdir /home/henrysp
The following TACL command creates the OSS file-system directory /home/henrysp
from within the Guardian environment:
OSH -p mkdir /home/henrysp
Assigning an Initial Working Directory Using Safeguard
You can assign an initial working directory to an existing user definition by using the
SAFECOM ALTER USER command to change the value of the INITIAL-DIRECTORY
attribute. You use a SAFECOM command such as:
ALTER USER group-number,member-number,
INITIAL-DIRECTORY /home/dir
or
ALTER USER group-name.member-name,
INITIAL-DIRECTORY /home/dir
group-number,member-number
is the structured view of the user ID of an existing user definition.
group-name.member-name
is the user name of an existing user definition.
/home/dir
is the initial working directory, expressed as an OSS pathname.
Note. HP strongly recommends that you create a separate fileset for initial working directories.