Hello all: I am new to UNIX and I am given the responsibility of administering a UNIX machine recently. The system is a IBM AIX 3.1. As a part of my duties I recently created some user accounts using "smit". It looked as if everything went well. But, after creating the account, I logged into it and found the prompt to be "#". I think this kind of prompt is only assigned to superusers. The prompt for other normal users is "work_station/home/username %". I am afraid that may be I assigned the new user accounts to be superusers. Is there a way to check the privileges of the new accounts? And, how do I revert them back to normal user status? Any kind of help is appreciated and hoping for a reply desperately before anything goes wrong. Thanx Praveen.

If you are truly running AIX 3.1, you have a very old version. Anyway, if the lsuser command is available, run the command `lsuser [username]` where username is the real user name and don't enclose in square brackets. If the ID field indicates and ID of 0, then yes, you have made everyone super users. Delete the accounts and try again. Otherwise, look at /etc/passwd. If you see the 3rd comma separated field in the passwd file is 0 (looks like username:!:0:1::/home/username::) then delete the account (except the root account) and try again. SMIT should do the job properly if you enter the information correctly.