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| bass2k1 2002-10-03, 1:55 am |
| I am rather new to FreeBSD, and I was just curious if there was a User Manager program, similar to the one used under Windows NT/2000, that I can use on an NT-based network to unlock user accounts and set permisions. I roamed around the X-Windows system on my FreeBSD machine, and installed practically every package that comes with it, however, I think I am looking over it, becase I can't find it.
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| ccieToBe 2002-10-04, 11:32 am |
| If you want a menu driven interface for adding and removing users and groups, try /stand/sysinstall. For setting permissions, use chown and chmod. That's assuming you're refering to local user permissions. If you're using Samba (SMB/CIFS server), you can use SWAT, which is a web browser based interface.
If this is a production server, get rid of all the packages. Only install what you're going to use.
But why mess with all of that? Once you get a handle on the CLI, I think you'll find that it's much more efficient to use. If you want to use the CLI, checkout adduser, rmuser, chmod, chown, smbpasswd, and passwd. | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2002-10-05, 7:39 am |
| The BSDs I think come with a "adduser" script which will prompt you for the necessary info to add a user. If you need to alter some data after that, you can use the usermod or userdel commands. I don't think that the user creation process is as streamlined on BSD as it is in Linux, so you will need to copy the files from /etc/skel to the user's home directory and then use chown and chgrp to change the owner and group of the files to those of the new user.
Like ccieToBe mentioned, never install all packages on a procution server -- that is a serious security risk -- *only* install the packages you really need.
I recall KDE and GNOME having user managers, you may want to try using those if you want. | |
| drdirt 2002-10-15, 2:28 am |
| The user, group and permissions on linux was really intimidating to me after reading a man page or two. If you fell that way, you might try getting a simple Linux book like Using Linux (Vue - not especially recommended) and just pick apart the files adduser or useradd modify. They are simple. I was fooled for a few minutes thinking that "::" was a symbol in the file. It is just an empty field between two colons. (I told you I was a newbie).
I still look up stuff since I don't change those files often. But when I did a new install, it was pretty easy to edit the files directly and add all my users at once.
(there are a few other steps which escape me now - just look it up before you start). |
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