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Hi all! I come from ubuntu, and use gnome on arch. I need a simple gui to manage/add users and group. Someone help me? Thanks in advance.
Silvio.
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hm...I don't know of any GUI user management. I'll write a quick bash script to make it easier in the command line and post back sometime tomorrow : )
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stythys there already is a script called adduser
Dont know of any gui ones either. you can try the arch way til you find one.
its pretty easy with "gpasswd -a group user" to add a user to a group and adduser to make a new user and userdel to remove a user.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … Management
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
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There is the gnome-system-tools package from [community]. One of the tools does user and group administration and is also what Ubuntu provides as a default, or did when I was using it. The functionality of the other tools that come with the package is a bit mixed - I'm not sure how well they understand the Arch way of configuring stuff. Oh, and do read the comments for the package in AUR, especially the ones about adding gksu/gksudo to the menu entries.
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I tryed webmin and user management section is very easy to use. Gnome sistem tools... great! I installed it, but how to use a particular tool (for example user management) and view all tools available? Thanks!
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I tryed webmin and user management section is very easy to use. Gnome sistem tools... great! I installed it, but how to use a particular tool (for example user management) and view all tools available? Thanks!
The gnome system tools all appear as menu entries under System -> Administration. There are tools for users, network, services, shares and time. As I wrote before, they don't all work on Arch.
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There's also kuser in kdeadmin package.
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Ok, thanks to all... This is a great community. I installed gnome-system-tool too, and playng around.
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stythys there already is a script called adduser
Dont know of any gui ones either. you can try the arch way til you find one.
its pretty easy with "gpasswd -a group user" to add a user to a group and adduser to make a new user and userdel to remove a user.http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … Management
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
aw man...
now to figure out what to do with my day...=P
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"Once you go Arch, you must remain there for life or else Allan will track you down and break you."
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You may want to look at larch.
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch5.3/i686
The program luser is a simple pyGTK program for working with users/groups. It's pretty light, but it should be useful for adding/editing users and passwords.
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i would also recommend to check out the wiki for help in adduser and gpasswd.
it in not necessary to do everything through the terminal but i think that it is nice at least to know how things work. after all that is the arch way
cheers
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Just instaled the gnome-system-tools, but i cannot change nothing in users and groups...
I use "gksudo users-admin" and i cannot change nothing
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Hi all! I come from ubuntu, and use gnome on arch. I need a simple gui to manage/add users and group. Someone help me? Thanks in advance.
Silvio.
i dont know of any GUI's but adding users is very easy with the terminal
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User_Management
just run the command adduser as root, it will ask you questions and you answer (very easy)
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adduser is pretty easy, and I can also manage useradd, gpasswd and so on, but as it's something I don't do very often, I forget the syntax of the latter and always have to read the manpage again. That's why I wrote 'luser' - for those occasional situations where you just quickly want to add/remove a user or add/remove a user to/from a group or whatever - and without the bulk of webmin, etc.. Try it, I'm biased but I find it pretty nifty. Just get the package from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch5.3/i686 and install it with pacman -U.
larch: http://larch.berlios.de
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There is the gnome-system-tools package from [community]. One of the tools does user and group administration and is also what Ubuntu provides as a default, or did when I was using it. The functionality of the other tools that come with the package is a bit mixed - I'm not sure how well they understand the Arch way of configuring stuff. Oh, and do read the comments for the package in AUR, especially the ones about adding gksu/gksudo to the menu entries.
Thank you, I wanted gnome-system-tools , now I have it.
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