Changing PW and Making Accounts?

w00t · 05-28-2003, 07:45 PM

2 Questions

1) How do i change my root password ?

2) How do i create more shell accounts ?

trickykid · 05-28-2003, 07:51 PM

These are very basic questions you know.. a search would have found your answer rather quickly but:

Use the command passwd to change passwords.
Use the command adduser to add user accounts.

View the man pages for more options on these commands.

man passwd
man adduser

or view them here at http://man.linuxquestions.org

w00t · 05-28-2003, 07:54 PM

Thanks

w00t · 05-28-2003, 08:31 PM

1 more question, how can i moniter the other users ? like in real time as they are connected.

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 08:32 PM

if you use mandrake u can use userconf
i think other distributions might have that too, it's a handy tool for managing users and root accounts

w00t · 05-28-2003, 08:35 PM

Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol specified
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

Is what i just got, maybe i need more info lol im a total n00b at linux as i have only been using it for like 1-2 days

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 09:12 PM

run "xhost +" in the KDE-run command box

kazuni · 05-28-2003, 09:12 PM

for monitoring other users you can run "w" or "who" in a shell terminal

w00t · 05-28-2003, 09:19 PM

Thanks i will give it a try

w00t · 05-28-2003, 09:22 PM

Ok that shows me the users connected witch it good but will that allow me to see the commands they are running or whatever in real time ?

also checked the xhost and figured that out lol
xhost + = disable
xhost or xhost - = enable

Crashed_Again · 05-29-2003, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by w00t
Ok that shows me the users connected witch it good but will that allow me to see the commands they are running or whatever in real time ?

No

alfy · 06-19-2003, 12:48 PM

Question along the same line.
How do you change the required length of a password and if there are numberic required?

Used to do this in RedHat 6.2 with Linuxconf. Went to Hat 7.3 and Linuxconf doesn't SEEM to be available. HMMMM...

Thanks for considering this.