Can't help you with webmin, but I can help you add users on the
command line.  It's worth noting that this works for me... there might
be a more elegant or preferred method.

I just add one example user through the dialog, then look in
/etc/group for the list of extra groups that similar users should
belong to.  In the example below, the user is an admin.

e.g.
% grep similarusersname /etc/groups

then, after I have the list, I add them with -G:

useradd -d /homepath/newusername -m -g users -G
adm,cdrom,plugdev,lpadmin,admin -s /bin/bash newusername

We like having our main group be "users", but that is no longer a
common practice.  See "man useradd" to give each user its own group.
The default shell on my version is sh, which is a bit primitive, so I
set it to bash.


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Jay Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> I've been adding users using System -> Administration -> Users and
> Groups. However, this doesn't work on thin clients, you must be logged
> in to the local console.
>
> So instead I tried creating users from the shell, which is fine except
> there is some part of the User and Groups GUI that sets a default set
> of group memberships for new users, which isn't done in the shell.
> Where is that controlled? I was also hoping to install webmin to allow
> regular users to admin users and groups, does anyone have experience
> with webmin on an LTSP server?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jay Goldberg
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