Creating and managing groups on AIX

On AIX®, providing you are not using NIS or NIS+, use SMITTY to work with groups.

About this task

On AIX, you can use SMITTY to create a group, add a user to a group, display a list of the users who are in the group, and remove a user from a group.

1. From SMITTY, select Security and Users and press Enter.
2. Select Groups and press Enter.
3. To create a group, complete the following steps:
   1. Select Add a Group and press Enter.
   2. Enter the name of the group and the names of any users that you want to add to the group, separated by commas.
   3. Press Enter to create the group.
4. To add a user to a group, complete the following steps:
   1. Select Change / Show Characteristics of Groups and press Enter.
   2. Enter the name of the group to show a list of the members of the group.
   3. Add the names of the users that you want to add to the group, separated by commas.
   4. Press Enter to add the names to the group.
5. To display who is in a group, complete the following steps:
   1. Select Change / Show Characteristics of Groups and press Enter.
   2. Enter the name of the group to show a list of the members of the group.
6. To remove a user from a group, complete the following steps:
   1. Select Change / Show Characteristics of Groups and press Enter.
   2. Enter the name of the group to show a list of the members of the group.
   3. Delete the name of the user that you want to remove from the group.
   4. Press Enter to remove the name from the group.