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Loading local UNIX users from a URI

As an alternative to manually creating individual local UNIX users in SVMs, you can simplify the task by loading a list of local UNIX users into SVMs from a uniform resource identifier (URI) (vserver services name-service unix-user load-from-uri).

  1. Create a file containing the list of local UNIX users you want to load.

    The file must contain user information in the UNIX /etc/passwd format: user_name: password: user_ID: group_ID: full_name

    The command discards the value of the password field and the values of the fields after the full_name field ( home_directory and shell ).

    The maximum supported file size is 2.5 MB.

  2. Verify that the list does not contain any duplicate information.

    If the list contains duplicate entries, loading the list fails with an error message.

  3. Copy the file to a server.

    The server must be reachable by the storage system over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or FTPS. HTTPS or FTPS is recommended.

  4. Determine what the URI for the file is.

    The URI is the address you provide to the storage system to indicate where the file is located.

  5. Load the file containing the list of local UNIX users into SVMs from the URI: vserver services name-service unix-user load-from-uri -vserver vserver_name -uri {ftp|http|ftps|https}://uri -overwrite {true|false}

    -overwrite {true|false} specifies whether to overwrite entries. The default is false .

Example​

The following command loads a list of local UNIX users from the URI ftp://ftp.example.com/passwd into the SVM named vs1. Existing users on the SVM are not overwritten by information from the URI.

node::> vserver services name-service unix-user load-from-uri -vserver vs1
-uri ftp://ftp.example.com/passwd -overwrite false