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Fedora 27 Screen Saver
Just back from Oracle OpenWorld and somebody desperately wants to know how to disable the 5 minute default screen saver setting in the KDE environment. OK, you navigate to the Fedora “f” in the lower left hand corner and choose System Settings, like:
In the System Setting menu page, select Desktop Behavior:
In the Desktop Behavior dialog, select Screen Locking. Change the default to something large like 90 for 1 and half hours.
As always, I hope that solves your problem.
Fedora User Manager
As one of my students pointed out, Fedora doesn’t install a GUI user management tool installed by default. That’s true. It’s easy to install. You can install it as the root user, like:
yum install -y system-config-users |
It should generate a screen console output like this when successfully installed:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit http://yum.postgresql.org/9.3/fedora/fedora-20-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Trying other mirror. Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package system-config-users.noarch 0:1.3.6-1.fc20 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libuser-python >= 0.56 for package: system-config-users-1.3.6-1.fc20.noarch --> Processing Dependency: python-pwquality for package: system-config-users-1.3.6-1.fc20.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package libuser-python.x86_64 0:0.60-3.fc20 will be installed ---> Package python-pwquality.x86_64 0:1.2.3-1.fc20 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: system-config-users noarch 1.3.6-1.fc20 updates 332 k Installing for dependencies: libuser-python x86_64 0.60-3.fc20 fedora 51 k python-pwquality x86_64 1.2.3-1.fc20 fedora 11 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package (+2 Dependent packages) Total download size: 395 k Installed size: 1.9 M Downloading packages: (1/3): libuser-python-0.60-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 51 kB 00:00 (2/3): python-pwquality-1.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm | 11 kB 00:00 (3/3): system-config-users-1.3.6-1.fc20.noarch.rpm | 332 kB 00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 212 kB/s | 395 kB 00:01 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction (shutdown inhibited) Installing : python-pwquality-1.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64 1/3 Installing : libuser-python-0.60-3.fc20.x86_64 2/3 Installing : system-config-users-1.3.6-1.fc20.noarch 3/3 Verifying : system-config-users-1.3.6-1.fc20.noarch 1/3 Verifying : libuser-python-0.60-3.fc20.x86_64 2/3 Verifying : python-pwquality-1.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64 3/3 Installed: system-config-users.noarch 0:1.3.6-1.fc20 Dependency Installed: libuser-python.x86_64 0:0.60-3.fc20 python-pwquality.x86_64 0:1.2.3-1.fc20 Complete! |
You can verify the GUI user management tool is present with the following command:
which system-config-users |
It should return this:
/bin/system-config-users |
You can run the GUI user management tool from the root user account or any sudoer account. The following shows how to launch the GUI User Manager from a sudoer account:
sudo system-config-users |
It will generate the following GUI User Manager screen:
As always, I hope this helps those trying to do some that should be a basic task that seems to get lost form the books and manuals beginners use.
Linux User-Group Console
This post shows you how to add the menu option and GUI to set users and groups. It’s quite a bit easier than mastering all the command-line syntax. It makes setting up the required user and group accounts for an Oracle Enterprise or MySQL database solution much easier.
You add the utility by calling the yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) utility like this:
yum installed -y system-config_users |
You should see the following:
Loaded plugins: langpacks adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00 ol7_UEKR3 | 1.2 kB 00:00 ol7_latest | 1.4 kB 00:00 Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package system-config-users.noarch 0:1.3.5-2.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: system-config-users-docs for package: system-config-users-1.3.5-2.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package system-config-users-docs.noarch 0:1.0.9-6.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: rarian-compat for package: system-config-users-docs-1.0.9-6.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package rarian-compat.x86_64 0:0.8.1-11.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: rarian = 0.8.1-11.el7 for package: rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: rarian for package: rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: librarian.so.0()(64bit) for package: rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package rarian.x86_64 0:0.8.1-11.el7 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: system-config-users noarch 1.3.5-2.el7 ol7_latest 337 k Installing for dependencies: rarian x86_64 0.8.1-11.el7 ol7_latest 97 k rarian-compat x86_64 0.8.1-11.el7 ol7_latest 65 k system-config-users-docs noarch 1.0.9-6.el7 ol7_latest 307 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package (+3 Dependent packages) Total download size: 805 k Installed size: 3.9 M Downloading packages: (1/4): rarian-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm | 97 kB 00:00 (2/4): rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64.rpm | 65 kB 00:00 (3/4): system-config-users-1.3.5-2.el7.noarch.rpm | 337 kB 00:00 (4/4): system-config-users-docs-1.0.9-6.el7.noarch.rpm | 307 kB 00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 830 kB/s | 805 kB 00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Installing : rarian-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 1/4 Installing : rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 2/4 Installing : system-config-users-1.3.5-2.el7.noarch 3/4 Installing : system-config-users-docs-1.0.9-6.el7.noarch 4/4 Verifying : rarian-compat-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 1/4 Verifying : system-config-users-1.3.5-2.el7.noarch 2/4 Verifying : rarian-0.8.1-11.el7.x86_64 3/4 Verifying : system-config-users-docs-1.0.9-6.el7.noarch 4/4 Installed: system-config-users.noarch 0:1.3.5-2.el7 Dependency Installed: rarian.x86_64 0:0.8.1-11.el7 rarian-compat.x86_64 0:0.8.1-11.el7 system-config-users-docs.noarch 0:1.0.9-6.el7 Complete! |
After successfully installing the radian, rarian-compat, system-config-users, and system-config-users-docs packages, you will find that there’s now a Users and Groups option when you navigate by clicking on Applications and then clicking on Sundry from the menu.
Menu Instructions
- You navigate to the Applications menu, and choose Sundry from the menu list and Users and Groups from the menu item to continue.
- You will be prompted for the sudoer’s password in this dialog.
- At this point, you can use the GUI interface to set users and groups.
As always, I hope this helps those trying to set users and passwords without mastering the command-line syntax.
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