Figure 5: Edit User Click to enlarge

Before editing user accounts, the user is chosen from a list of all users. Several options can be used to only display a particular portion of users:

• a particular group
• or all users that satisfy one or more conditions:
  • Expired
  • Non-Expired
  • Disabled
  • Non-Disabled
  • Paid (= paid, exempt, volunteer, paid via IDI)
  • Non-Paid
  • "Keep" Requests (from WWW)
  • non-"Keep" Requests
  • Default Password

The Edit User Interface resembles the Add User Menu in its visuals and functionality. All user account and user info fields can be changed.

Linked to

• Netgroups: same as Add User
• Write & Restart: Upon editing a user, the Main Menu is notified that a change in the user database has occured. The Main Menu now displays a Warning message, which prompts the account manager to write the user database, as well as restarting YP.

When editing a user, the main fields are checked for correctness and duplicates. The following tasks are executed on a successful check:

• the user's home directory is moved, if necessary
• the ownership for the user's home directory is reset, if necessary

After editing user accounts, the change in the user database needs to be written to disk in a separate process (see "Write and Restart")