Administering the system:administrators Group

The first type of AFS administrative privilege is membership . Members of the system:administrators group in the Protection Database have the following privileges:

To display the members of the system:administrators group

  1. Issue the pts membership command to display the system:administrators group's list of members. Any user can issue this command as long as the first privacy flag on the system:administrators group's Protection Database entry is not changed from the default value of uppercase S.

       % pts membership system:administrators
    

    where m is the shortest acceptable abbreviation of membership.

To add users to the system:administrators group

  1. Verify that you belong to the system:administrators group. If necessary, issue the pts membership command, which is fully described in To display the members of the system:administrators group.

       % pts membership system:administrators
    
  2. Issue the pts adduser group to add one or more users.

       % pts adduser -user <user name>+ -group system:administrators
    

    where

    ad

    Is the shortest acceptable abbreviation of adduser.

    -user

    Names each user to add to the system:administrators group.

To remove users from the system:administrators group

  1. Verify that you belong to the system:administrators group. If necessary, issue the pts membership command, which is fully described in To display the members of the system:administrators group.

       % pts membership system:administrators
    
  2. Issue the pts removeuser command to remove one or more users.

       % pts removeuser -user <user name>+ -group system:administrators
    

    where

    rem

    Is the shortest acceptable abbreviation of removeuser.

    -user

    Names each user to remove from the system:administrators group.