Changing Default Settings For Local Users - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

mail notifications to users exceeding their quota. With quota_nld, administrators
can also forward kernel messages about exceeded quotas to D-BUS. For more informa-
tion, refer to the repquota, the warnquota and the quota_nld man page (root
password needed).
9.4 Changing Default Settings for
Local Users
When creating new local users, several defaults settings are used by YaST. These in-
clude, for example, the primary group and the secondary groups the user belong to, or
the access permissions of the user's home directory. You can change these default settings
to meet your requirements:
1 Open the YaST User and Group Administration dialog and select the Defaults
for New Users tab.
2 To change the primary group the new users should automatically belong to, select
another group from Default Group.
3 To modify the secondary groups for new users, add or change groups in Secondary
Groups. The group names must be separated by commas.
4 If you do not want to use /home/username as default path for new users'
home directories, modify the Path Prefix for Home Directory.
5 To change the default permission modes for newly created home directories,
adjust the umask value in Umask for Home Directory. For more information
about umask, refer to Chapter 10, Access Control Lists in Linux (↑Security Guide)
and to the umask man page.
6 For information about the individual options, click Help.
7 Apply your changes with Finish.
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