Linux Question - How To Add Users?

[Superwormy]

How do I manage Users and Groups on Linux? ( Slackware LInux 8.1 if you must know )

I'm a TOTAL newbie!


I need to add another user besdies the ' root ' user. Also hopefully manage groups and shares and stuff for when I get Samba setup...


Can anyone reccommend any basic but good Linux totorials or anytying?

 

[Armitage]

useradd (see the man page)

-or-

linuxconf

-or-

some other gui probably somewhere in the menus of your desktop environment.

 

[DimZiE]

adding users:

you can add users from the console ...
type: adduser username [enter]

or you can use Linuxconf.. (it's much easier IMO)
or if you're using KDE you can use KUser or the User Manager program

if you're trying to set up SAMBA server try do a search on google "SAMBA howto" you'll find a lot of good links there
the samba.conf file itself is pretty much self explanatory... but setting up e-mail service w/ sendmail can be a real pain
try using qmail and fetchmail instead...

good luck 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

Avoid linuxconf, it's never been very reliable nor has it worked well on non-RH distros, IME.

Samba.org has most of the Samba docs you'll need. You'll find that shares and their accesses have 2 levels of security (sort of like in Windows) with the first set of read/write lists specified in the share definition in smb.conf and the second being real filesystem access on the files themselves.