Re: User manager

Sean Willson (willson@interaccess.com)
Wed, 13 May 1998 17:59:43 -0500


Steve,

I noticed the same thing when I installed RedHat last night.  I got around it by
setting the password to be empty, login as the user, and then immediatly set the
password by calling passwd.  That worked for me.

Sean

Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:

> 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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