Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
If you click on System -> Administration -> Users and Groups you
give your root password and up comes a nearly blank panel. It lists
just one User and you wonder what it is good for. At least I did. I
tried for Help and none appeared.
that's right, karl ... and those screamingly obvious "Add User" and
"Add Group" icons at the top of the dialog panel -- gosh, they're
tricky little buggers, aren't they? one can only *guess* what
possible value *they* have.
Then I clicked on Edit and then Preferences. There I found all
the blocks with a check mark before them. So I erased all the check
marks and rebooted the thing. Now it lists ALL the Users and Groups.
You can click on one and a panel comes up and let's you join any
group you want to. It is useful.
Why does it arrive on a new load with all those things checked?
Where is help on F8? I think it is a bug.
right again, karl -- *your* lack of understanding clearly implies a
monumental design flaw in fedora. i recommend bugzilla, priority
"high", severity "critical". *that'll* teach those software
developers what's what.
good luck with that ... let us know how it works out.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
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Karl,
here is a link to the fedora wiki "User Accounts" page. I think it will
help explain how the Users and Groups gui works.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/UserAccounts
Greg Sieranski
