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.
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