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110 Chapter 8 Managing User and Group Accounts

For more information, see the createhomedir man page.

In all cases, Home folders are created on the server where you run the tool.

To create a Home folder for a user:

$ sudo createhomedir -u

uid

In addition to the uid, you can also use the user’s short name.

To create a Home folder for users in the local domain:

$ sudo createhomedir [(-a|-l|-n

domain

)] -u

uid

You can also create a user’s Home folder using the serversetup tool.

To create a Home folder for a user:

$ sudo /System/Library/ServerSetup/serversetup -createHomedir

uid

The command displays a 1 if the user ID you specify doesn’t exist.

Mounting a User’s Home Folder

To mount a user’s Home folder, use mnthome. The mnthome tool unmounts the AFP

(AppleShare) Home folder that was automounted as guest, and remounts it with the

correct privileges by logging into the AFP server using the current user name and

password.

To mount a user’s shared Home folder on an AFP server:

$ mnthome -p

password

For more information, see the mnthome man page.

Administering Group Accounts

A group is a collection of users who have similar needs. For example, you can add all

users with a task to one group and give the group permission to access certain files or

folders on a volume.

Groups simplify the administration of shared resources. Instead of granting access to

resources to each individual who needs them, you can add the users to a group and

then grant access to the group. Information in group accounts helps control user

access to folders and files. Individual users can belong to multiple groups, depending

on their access needs.

A group can be nested within another group. A group that contains another group is

called a parent group, and the group that is contained is called a nested group. Nested

groups are useful for inheriting access permissions at login time.

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