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09-06-2003, 03:31 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: New Delhi, India
Distribution: RHEL AS 3/4, Windows XP
Posts: 546
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GUI for new user creation
I have PC Quest Linux 8.0 based on RedHat Linux 8.0.
I want to create a new user account. However, I dont want to use the command 'useradd'.
I would like to know if KDE offers any GUI to create a new user. If not, how can I create a new user account? I am not clear about the options that are required with the 'useradd' command like the default group name, and userID etc....It would be better, if the system can take care of these additional arguements.
I therefore want a graphical alternative to the 'useradd' command.
If there is no such GUI available, can anyone help me create a new user --- lets say, 'abc'?
Please help.
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09-06-2003, 03:50 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Debian 12
Posts: 8,385
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KDE does not have a "useradd" function. Some distributions provide a GUI useradd function in their setup program. SuSE does it with YaST.
So if you have a GUI useradd function it will be in the PC Quest setup utility.
If you have to use the command line useradd then you can get a full description of useradd in almost readable English with:
man useradd
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09-06-2003, 03:58 PM
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Location: New Delhi, India
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If you have to use the command line useradd then you can get a full description of useradd in almost readable English with:
man useradd
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I am aware that i can display the help section using the 'man' command and the --help option too. But, as I told u, my problem is, that I am not aware of the values that I need to put in as arguments to the various 'useradd' options - like group name, userID, name of the shell (although I know its Bash)...etc...
It is because of this reason I was looking for a GUI .....I suppose then there is no such GUI available for RedHat Linux...is it? ....
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09-06-2003, 04:10 PM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: 35.7480° N, 95.3690° W
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Solaris
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The command
redhat-config-users
is Red Hat's GUI
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09-06-2003, 04:15 PM
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Location: New Delhi, India
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thanx a lot darthtux.....thanx very much....that did the job for me.....!!! 
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09-06-2003, 04:22 PM
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Registered: Dec 2001
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No prob  The admin commands are one reason you gotta love Red Hat
For others, just do
ls /usr/bin/redhat-config-*
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09-06-2003, 04:36 PM
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Location: New Delhi, India
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ya, that certainly is a nice suggestion. I'll keep that in mind...thanx once again for the help. 
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