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User Management

Epic User creation

  1. SSH into Nimutil server
  2. Navigate to epicuser directory
cd /var/tmp/epicuser
  1. Run user creation script
ksh epicusers.ksh

  1. From sailpoint, get the request's work item ID and prefix the letter w to the work item ID and paste it.

  2. Similarly prefix A for the Access reuqest ID and E for Life Number and Paste.

  3. Copy and paste the Display Name and the Hospital ID.

  4. Confirm the user creation by typing in Y. If a mistake was made, type N to exit out of the script [You would have to restart the process from step 1]

Creating/Managing a Local User

Display information about a specific user

id username

To create a new user with the specified username

useradd username

To create a new user with a specified home directory

useradd -d /home/username username

To change the password for the specified user

passwd username

To change the user ID (UID) for the specified user

usermod -u userid username

To change/add the primary group of the specified user

usermod -g new_group_id username

To change the password for the user with the specified user ID (UID)

passwd userid

To unlock a user account (allow login again)

usermod -U username

To reset the unsuccessful login count for the specified user

chuser unsuccessful_login_count=0 userid

To delete a user and their home directory

userdel -r username