Chapter 12. Administering User Accounts
| Part IV. Managing Users and Groups |

## Chapter 12. Administering User Accounts

This chapter explains how to create and maintain user accounts in your cell.

The preferred method for creating user accounts is the uss program, which enables you to create multiple accounts with a single command. See Creating and Deleting User Accounts with the uss Command Suite. If you prefer to create each account component individually, follow the instructions in Creating AFS User Accounts.

## Summary of Instructions

This chapter explains how to perform the following tasks by using the indicated commands:

Create Protection Database entry | pts createuser
Create Authentication Database entry | kas create
Create volume | vos create
Mount volume | fs mkmount
Create entry on ACL | fs setacl
Examine Protection Database entry | pts examine
Change directory ownership | /etc/chown
Limit failed authentication attempts | kas setfields with -attempts and -locktime
Unlock Authentication Database entry | kas unlock
Set password lifetime | kas setfields with -pwexpires
Prohibit password reuse | kas setfields with -reuse
Change AFS password | kas setpassword
List groups owned by user | pts listowned
Rename Protection Database entry | pts rename
Delete Authentication Database entry | kas delete
Rename volume | vos rename
Remove mount point | fs rmmount
Delete Protection Database entry | pts delete
List volume location | vos listvldb
Remove volume | vos remove

Creating and Deleting Multiple Accounts with the uss bulk Command |  | The Components of an AFS User Account