Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> Being an "old fart", I am used to adding users >> with the old adduser tool and I noticed that in >> doing so, using the System->Administrator->User and Groups >> tool does not even "see" the newly added users & groups. >> >> So, how does one go about forcing this Gui tool into seeing >> what is in the /etc/passwd,group & shadow files? >> >> Thanks! >> Dan >> > Dumb question - are you adding UIDs and GIDs greater then 500? > If not, you will need to uncheck the Hide System Users and Groups > checkbox in order to see them. > > Mikkel > The question is a general question, regardless of the distro, OSIT. Fedora starts @ 500 & up Ubuntu starts @ 1000 & up I am not sure if the administration tool itself is the same application for most distros, though. I am currently setting up on Ubuntu and I don't see any "preferences" button on this application. I will check on Fedora when I wrap up Ubuntu. I am specifically looking to where this app stores its data or expects to find its data if it is not accepting the data from passwd, group, ... files. It's possible it creates it's own database somewhere and expects no user has been previously installed, thus being fascist, me thinks, but I could be wrong. [OFF TOPIC] I am installing several different distros for comparison and see what the pluses and minuses are. So far I have multi-boot installed: Win2k WinXp Vista F8 [Now obsolete - not as good as F9, plan is to drop F8] F9 [Now obsolete - best system so far - keep for awhile] F10 [Gnome session save is broken] F11 [Unable to install/upgrade] F12 [Not available - drop F10 & F11 iff F12 solves major problems] Utuntu 9.04 [Gnome-sessions save is broken - niffy tools not on F!] Debian 5.02 Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
