mikshaw
  
 
 
  
 
 
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Posted: May 04 2005,17:44 | 
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*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. 
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