A few questions about usersForum: Other Help Topics Topic: A few questions about users started by: nbx909 Posted by nbx909 on May 04 2005,12:13
Can i change passwords of users? Can i create a user that will not go into x windows (just stay in run level 5) with the same permissions as DSL? Can I create another user that has root permissions?
Posted by nbx909 on May 04 2005,17:32
is this not possible?
Posted by mikshaw on May 04 2005,17:44
*Can i change passwords of users?Yes. Use the "passwd" command. *Can i create a user that will not go into x windows (just stay in run level 2) with the same permissions as DSL? Remove "startx" from /home/username/.bash_profile. This is for runlevel 5, which is actually text mode, but with the startx command issued at login it automatically puts you in X. I believe runlevel 2 is single-user mode. Same permissions as dsl will be difficult since there can be only one user with a given userID, and therefore only one user can have ownership of a file. Closest thing i can think of is to add the new user to the group "staff". You still won't get all of the same permissions on dsl-owned files, but it's close. *Can I create another user that has root permissions? Not really. You can add a user to the root group, but you'll have the same situation as above....you don't have unlimited permissions to all root-owned files. There's really no need for this anyway. If you want root power, log in as root. Posted by nbx909 on May 04 2005,22:42
how do i place users in groups... I'm a linux n00b...
Posted by mikshaw on May 05 2005,02:20
sudo usermod -G group1,group2,group3,... usernameBe aware that if the user you are editing is in a particular group, and you do not list that group after -G, he will be removed from the group. Look in /etc/group to see the groups and the users in them |