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Revision as of 13:46, 15 September 2010
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KUser is a tool for managing users and groups on your system |
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 (Alt+F2) typing
, or start it with KRunnerkuser
.
Using KUser
After starting KUser a window opens containing two tabs:
and .

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 , , or set/change a for example. You can also .

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
opens a dialog, where you can of the group and to/from a group.

Configure KUser
Click
and you can set up defaults for creating a new user:General
- set the , the or the .
- choose if a will be created and if a (standard configuration files) will be copied to the home folder.
- set a , which creates a own personal group when a user is added and removes it, when the user is removed.
- set a .

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

LDAP
- set preferences for users in a local network
