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Administering TCP/IP

The User Equivalence Manager interface

You can start the User Equivalence Manager in any of these ways:

For more information on using SCOadmin managers, see ``Administering your system with SCOadmin''.

The User Equivalence Manager's top level and menus are illustrated here:

With the User Equivalence Manager, you can:


When you run the User Equivalence Manager as root, you by default edit root's user equivalence. To edit the equivalence of another user, select Open from the File menu and choose another user to edit.

You can also perform each of these tasks manually. See the manual page for rhosts(SFF) for more information.

Opening another user's equivalence file

Only root can open another user's equivalence file. To do so in the User Equivalence Manager:

  1. Choose Open from the File menu. A list of user names appears.

  2. Select a user in one of two ways:

    To limit the list to those users matching a certain pattern, enter the pattern (including wildcard characters) in the ``Filter'' field, then click on Filter. You can then make your selection from the list and click on OK.

After opening another user's equivalence file, you can add or delete equivalences for that user.

Adding user equivalence

In the User Equivalence Manager:

  1. Select Add Equivalence from the User menu, or click on the add a new equivalence entry toolbar button.

  2. Enter the host name of the remote host. To select a host from a list of networked hosts, click on the Select button. This may take up to a minute on a network with many hosts.

  3. Enter a user name.

  4. Click on the OK button.

  5. Continue adding equivalences by repeating steps 1 through 4.

  6. When you are finished, select Save from the File menu. If you do not save the file, either now or when leaving the User Equivalence Manager, the additions you make are not saved.

Selecting another host while adding equivalence

You specify a remote host when adding user equivalence. To select a host name from a list of available networked hosts:

  1. Click on the Select button On the Add a user window.

  2. Select a host name by one of the following means:

    To limit the list to those hosts matching a certain pattern, enter the pattern (including wildcard characters) in the ``Filter'' field, then click on Filter. You can then make your selection from the list and click on OK.

You can sort the list by name or address. To do so, click on the appropriate radio button.

Deleting user equivalence

In the User Equivalence Manager:

  1. Select the equivalence you want to delete from the list.

  2. Select Delete equivalence from the User menu, or click on the delete the selected equivalence entry toolbar button.

  3. When prompted, click on Yes to confirm the deletion.

  4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for each equivalence you want to delete.

  5. When done deleting equivalences, select Save from the File menu. If you do not save the file, either now or when prompted by the User Equivalence Manager, the deletions you make are not saved.


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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003