[lug] Linuxconf deprecation

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Wed Aug 15 13:37:53 MDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:25:10PM -0600, David wrote:
> I asked a similar, but more specific, question a week or two ago: "how
> do I create a new user under either Gnome or KDE?".  The point for me
> was that I could not find a menu item, leaving me to conclude that
> creating a new user is not important enough (to RedHat) to take the
> menu space.  There was not much response from the list, but my
> recollection is that there is a usermanager under KDE, but that did
> not come up for me; and no-one could tell me how to do it under Gnome.
> I ended up using groupadd and adduser.  Silly ain't it?

The 7.2beta (Roswell) tool is called redhat-config-users, and is
avilable from Programs:System menu. You have to be root to run it.

Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com



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