IB SWITCH:Engineered Systems : Unable To Create User Account In IB Switches

Asset ID:	1-71-2238622.1
Update Date:	2018-01-03
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Solution 2238622.1 : IB SWITCH:Engineered Systems : Unable To Create User Account In IB Switches

Applies to:

Exalogic Elastic Cloud X5-2 Quarter Rack - Version X5 and later
Exadata Database Machine V2 - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

HOW to create new user for an infiniband switch

Solution

From Bug 23748002 [https://bug.oraclecorp.com/pls/bug/webbug_edit.edit_info_top?rptno=23748002] [https://bug.oraclecorp.com/pls/bug/webbug_edit.edit_info_top?rptno=23748002] [https://bug.oraclecorp.com/pls/bug/webbug_edit.edit_info_top?rptno=23748002] : Unable to create users on NM2 switches
it is said ,

@ useradd in root is not a supported command in our NM2 switches, so please do
@ not use that.

Please, add user from the ilom with
-> create /SP/users/

Symptoms

Issue
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EXACOE-PS: Unable to Create user account in IB switches

root@gw01 ~]# useradd -c "xxxxxx" yyyyyy
Creating mailbox file: File exists
useradd: cannot rewrite password file
[root@gw01 ~]# ls -l /etc/passwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 8 2014 /etc/passwd -> /conf/passwd
[root@gw01 ~]#

Changes

Cause

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References

<BUG:23748002> - UNABLE TO CREATE USERS ON NM2 SWITCHES

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