Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Managing Users and Groups with linuxconf

The linuxconf command is a highly welcome addition to Red Hat Linux. Having a GUI tool to manage users and groups takes a lot of hassle out of making small changes, but I'm sure that many system administrators still prefer the command-line method.

Creating and Modifying Users

Adding a user is one of the more basic tasks you can perform with linuxconf. When you installed Red Hat Linux you should have at least set up one user account. Adding additional users is easy.

To add a new user account, follow these steps:

1.	Start linuxconf.
2.	Click the Config tab.
3.	Expand the tree browser under Users Accounts, Normal, User Accounts.
4.	Click on User Accounts. You should now see the Users Accounts panel.
5.	Click ...