Re: User manager for X
A while back a friend of mine showed me a Red Hat machine they were running at work.They had X setup, and there was some sort of user manager tool they had up there, which supposedly came with the system. It did all kinds of snappy things like add and remove users, allowing you to pick shells, and automatically setting up default config files for the selected shells. Anyone know what that was? Running anything similar? There is a configuration tool for Linux systems called linuxconf that is supposed to be able to setup quite a few things. Might be worth checking out. I've never used it myself and probably won't until I get to the stage where I can configure my system blindfolded. One thing about the snappy tools that has always bothered me is, how would I manage if I had to setup a system without them? Just count the number of Windows users who say What? when you tell them to modify AUTOEXEC.BAT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: User manager for X
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while back a friend of mine showed me a Red Hat machine they were running at work.They had X setup, and there was some sort of user manager tool they had up there, which supposedly came with the system. It did all kinds of snappy things like add and remove users, allowing you to pick shells, and automatically setting up default config files for the selected shells. There are some of these on sunsite, so you can install one in /usr/local/ if you want. www.linuxhq.com has a nice browser for sunsite. Anyone know what that was? Running anything similar? IMHO, these tools are nice to look at, but not *that* usefull. If you have many users, you need scripting abilities to masschange something. I don't know any GUI usertool which can do this. And most times, I manage my server using telnet, sometimes over a modom link. So no way using a GUI. These programms don't do more then you can do at the prompt. adduser (*the* primary programm for usermanagement in debian; check the manpage ) deluser chfn - change the gecos field chsh - change the shell And: If you know these commands, you can make a great impression on some Redhat guys who think the GUI stuff they use is the only way (and who are lost when they don't have X available) :-) Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
User manager for X
Hi All, A while back a friend of mine showed me a Red Hat machine they were running at work.They had X setup, and there was some sort of user manager tool they had up there, which supposedly came with the system. It did all kinds of snappy things like add and remove users, allowing you to pick shells, and automatically setting up default config files for the selected shells. Anyone know what that was? Running anything similar? Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
