Re: User manager

Steve Ki-Won Lee (kiwon@ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca)
Wed, 13 May 1998 15:44:12 -0600 (MDT) 

On Wed, 13 May 1998, MJohnson wrote:

> the only thing I hate about kde is 1) it's flabby and 2) I feel it it too
> much of a windows simulator.. (am I the only one who thinks the kde package
> resembles a windows/mac type environment more than the other xmanagers?).

KDE's UI is inspired by windoze95 and CDE...I don't think it gets any
sicker than that..

> BTW SuSE comes with YaST which has a user management gui built into the
> startup screen so that you can add new users and perform other functions
> from the gui, such as upgrads, network configuration, device setups etc.
> Maybe you shoudl try the SuSE demo to see if you like it... (this si
> directed at the guy asking about usermanagement tools) Anyways....

Hope this is still staying on topic, but I'd like to use this opportunity 
to see if someone has the solution to my problem.  I use Redhat 5.0
(hurricane) and with it comes a GUI based utility called control-panel
which, much like Suse's YaST, has various configuration tools, one of
which is the usercfg program.

This is a very simple program that let's you add, remove, modify users and
groups alike.  So far though, when I try to log in after adding a couple
of users, whether by rebooting, rloging in, or telnetting in to my linux
box, it refuses to let me log in as the newly created users.  I always end
up logging in as root instead. 

Does anyone w/rh 5.0 have the same problem?  Are there any suggestions out
there that will solve my problem?  I really need to be able to log in as
another user than root to be able to visit some of the linux themed irc
channels, so I could get "on the fly" tech support.  Thanks in advance to
those who could help.

With Best,

Steve


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