Hi Lachele, yes, this is what I've been doing. I was hoping there's a way
to go "straight to the source" if you will and find out what defines the
extra grouplist and why the "adduser" behaves differently from gnome Users
and Groups.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Lachele Foley (Lists) <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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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