The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
On 7/15/20 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
Can you provide a link to the doc that mentions that? What do you mean by "user settings"? What settings would be involved?
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:34:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/15/20 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
Can you provide a link to the doc that mentions that? What do you mean by "user settings"? What settings would be involved?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f32/system-administrators-guide/...
On 7/15/20 2:05 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:34:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/15/20 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
Can you provide a link to the doc that mentions that? What do you mean by "user settings"? What settings would be involved?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f32/system-administrators-guide/...
I don't see anywhere that it's secret. In Gnome Settings which is accessible from the top-right menu, click on Details and then there's the Users tab. If you start in a sub-section, you might need to click on the back button to get to the top level first.
Or you can use the shortcut from the overview screen by typing "users" (which automatically searches).
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:59:07 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/15/20 2:05 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:34:43 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/15/20 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
Can you provide a link to the doc that mentions that? What do you mean by "user settings"? What settings would be involved?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f32/system-administrators-guide/...
I don't see anywhere that it's secret. In Gnome Settings which is accessible from the top-right menu, click on Details and then there's the Users tab. If you start in a sub-section, you might need to click on the back button to get to the top level first.
Or you can use the shortcut from the overview screen by typing "users" (which automatically searches).
Ah! "Gnme" that explains it. I did not realize that Settings belonged to the desktop -- silly me. Not available in XFCE4, sigh,
Thanks.
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:14:46 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
I gave up on the GUI after they "fixed" it to be more modern and helpful. I just use useradd, usermod, and userdel now from command line.
On 16/7/20 6:21 am, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:14:46 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The doc for Fedora 32 makes reference to a 'Users Settings Tool' accessible (secretly) from the Settings tool. It does not appear to be available. Any idea why? Or where there might be a similar GUI?
I gave up on the GUI after they "fixed" it to be more modern and helpful. I just use useradd, usermod, and userdel now from command line.
If you are using KDE you could install KUser which provides a gui interface to maintaining users. One issue with this tool is it seems to require the root user password, not a password associated with sudo, hence you potentially need to have set up a root password.
regards, Steve
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