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A Slackware Desktop Enhancement GuideAdding User Accounts© Copyright Darrell Anderson. Adding new user accounts is a topic well covered by many Slackware web sites and manuals. All Linux-based distros will provide a command line utility called useradd. Many people add user accounts using this command. Additionally, Slackware provides a special command line script called adduser that is located in /usr/sbin. Yes, the similarity in names is confusing! The adduser script is basically a front-end to the useradd command. Whenever in doubt about which one to use, however, at the command line type man useradd or man adduser. The script is packaged with no man page. However, many people who begin using GNU/Linux arrive from a GUI-based world and are accustomed to point-and-click access to their system. There is no reason to sacrifice that comfort. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) comes packaged with a nice graphical user manager tool called KUser. In most KDE menus the utility is found in the System menu. Of course, using KUser means launching the X/KDE environment, and that is not always easy with Slackware. From run level 3 the typical way to launch the X/KDE environment is to run the startx script. From run level 4, a login manager, typically KDM (K Display Manager), is used with KDE. Yet, before users can launch the X/KDE interface, users must first configure their X server environment and that is where many people stumble for a while. Slackware provides no easy hardware auto recognition tools. Regardless, after configuring X, getting into KDE is relatively straightforward. Once in KDE, users can use KUser to add user accounts. You need not be logged in as root to use KUser. When you launch KUser the handy tool will ask you for the root password, unless you are already logged in as root. Finis. |
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