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KUser is a tool for managing users and groups on your system

Information

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Features

Add/Edit/Remove users
Add/Edit/Remove groups
Password Management

Setup

KUser usually is not installed by default, so it has to be installed manually. KUser is part of the kdeadmin-package.

Once installed you can find it under K-Menu -> System -> KUser, or start it with KRunner (Alt+F2) typing

kuser

.

Using KUser

After starting KUser a window opens containing two tabs: Users and Groups.

Users

Double-clicking a user opens a dialog with several tabs. The amount of tabs is variable, depending on the type of the user storage system and whether quotas are being used.

User Info

Modify the user-properties like User-ID, Name, Adress information or set/change a password for example. You can also deactivate an account.

Password Management

Change password settings, like the time after which a password has to be changed, or set a time at which an account will expire.

Groups

Add or remove groups the user belongs to.

Groups

Double clicking a group opens a dialog, where you can change the name of the group and add/remove users to/from a group.

Warning

Be careful deleting anything, as it can harm your system seriously!

Configure KUser

Click Settings -> Configure KUser and you can set up defaults for creating a new user:

General

set the shell, the home path or the UID.
choose if a home folder will be created and if a skeleton (standard configuration files) will be copied to the home folder.
set a private group, which creates a own personal group when a user is added and removes it, when the user is removed.
set a standard password policy.

Files

set default paths for password, group file, password shadow file and group shadow file.

LDAP

set preferences for users in a local network

Tip

In most cases you won't have to change the default settings, as they are sufficient for most users.

More Information

KUser Manual (it is from KDE3 Days, but still valid)

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