Gnome gtk2 user manager app

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

Is there a gui user manager for gnome? I want to add/edit/remove users and groups and I'm sick of the commandline tools.

Thanks.
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iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

Haven't found one yet and am looking for something...
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Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

I'm running Gnome 2.3.3 and I see one at Applications--> Desktop Preferences --> System Tools --> Users. I am not sure whether this is in the default Gnome install or if I've picked it up as a byproduct of some other package recently installed. I've been on an emerge frenzy of late...

Looks like a nice tool if you are into that sort of thing though for sure!

Cheers,
~arker

Edit: I looked at the properties of the menu item...

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

Bytal · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject:

breakmygentoo.net is the place you want to look at and is what iwasbiggs was talking about.
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Haro · n00b Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: West Bend, WI

I have BMG gnome2.3.3 build and do not have gnome-system-tools. You sure this isn't something ximian added to their package?

Haro · n00b Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: West Bend, WI

I have BMG gnome2.3.3 build and do not have gnome-system-tools. You sure this isn't something ximian added to their package?

Haro · n00b Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 71 Location: West Bend, WI

I have BMG gnome2.3.3 build and do not have gnome-system-tools. You sure this isn't something ximian added to their package or am I missing something?

Ssl · Apprentice Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 178 Location: Serbia

Latest version of gnome-system-tools is 0.25.0 as I know. It is consisted of following modules:

users-admin
time-admin
runlevel-admin
network-admin and
boot-admin

Gentoo,as platform, is supported in only one module [can't remember which one]. Is there any work in progress about this ?

Hope network-admin will bring one nice ppp dialer and hope GST will become a part of new GNOME 2.4

iwasbiggs · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 203

Problem solved:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/screenshots.html

Edit: Version 0.26 is out now

Edit 2: Here's an ebuild
http://www.ruinedsoft.com/gentoo/gnome-system-tools-0.26.1.ebuild

Copy it into your overlay directory under gnome-extra/gnome-system-tools/

maxmc · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:20 pm Post subject:

On the GST page it says that they support Time and Users for Gentoo, but only Users work in the current ebuild.

There's also a 0.27 release out now. What goes into making a backend?
It can't be too hard to support time/date changes can it?

darkcoder · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject:

While date/time and users are "supported" on gentoo, they are very buggy (at least on gst 0.27). Users-admin usually freeze and destroy my user config files (group, passwd, shadow), while date freeze without making the changes I want. So I suggest you to backup /etc before working with these tools, and more important, submit the bugs you find. That´s the only way we will get gentoo support.

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darkcoder · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:50 pm Post subject:

And BTW, users-admin create an independent group for each user instead of the gentoo way of adding users to the users group. I reported that already and is fixed in cvs.
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