S2000-025: IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator Specialty

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Problem Determination and Management

An administrator compares the lsuser command output with the contents of /etc/passwd. The lsuser output shows 116 user accounts, while /etc/passwd contains only 16.

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In AIX, /etc/passwd contains locally defined user accounts, while user definitions can also be held in an external registry such as LDAP. When LDAP is configured, lsuser can list those LDAP-defined users even though they have no corresponding entries in the local /etc/passwd file.

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