Creating and managing accounts in GNOME

[Alex]

Hi,

I'm an old-school Linux user who's always done things from the command
line. I have a fedora29 desktop with GNOME and need to change the
default login user. Where are the GNOME user management tools to do
this? Certainly nothing in Applications except "Settings" which
apparently isn't for managing users.

All the documentation I have found on this no longer seems applicable.

Is fedora29 now using wayland?

Thanks,
Alex

[Samuel Sieb]

On 11/12/19 12:40 PM, Alex wrote:
> I'm an old-school Linux user who's always done things from the command
> line. I have a fedora29 desktop with GNOME and need to change the
> default login user. Where are the GNOME user management tools to do
> this? Certainly nothing in Applications except "Settings" which
> apparently isn't for managing users.

What do you mean by "default login user"?
There is a simple user management section in the Gnome Settings.
> All the documentation I have found on this no longer seems applicable.

What documentation?
> Is fedora29 now using wayland?

By default it does if you are using Gnome.  F29 is also almost EOL.

[sixpack13]

...
> .... Where are the GNOME user management tools to do
> this? Certainly nothing in Applications except "Settings" which
> apparently isn't for managing users.

see "Gnome Setting" => "Details" => "Users"
- somewhat hidden -

[Alex]

> What do you mean by "default login user"?

I recalled there being a way to designate which user is automatically
prompted for a password when logging in.
> There is a simple user management section in the Gnome Settings.

Clearly I didn't see it.
> > All the documentation I have found on this no longer seems applicable.
>
> What documentation?

The ones which weren't applicable, of course :-)

I looked through techmint and other Linux sites, and searching only
returned results from much older versions of fedora.

sixpack13 wrote:
> see "Gnome Setting" => "Details" => "Users"
> somewhat hidden -

That did it, thanks. Yes, hidden for sure.