Managing Users With Yast; User And Group Administration Dialog - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

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Managing Users with YaST

During installation, you have chosen a method for user authentication . This method
is either local (via /etc/passwd) or, if a network connection is established, via NIS,
LDAP, Kerberos or Samba (see Section 3.8, "Create New User" (page 30). You can
create or modify user accounts and can change the authentication method with YaST
at any time.
Every user is assigned a user ID (UID) which identifies him in the system. Apart from
the users which can log in to your machine, there are also a number of system users for
internal use only. Each user is assigned to one or more groups. Similar to system users,
there are also system groups for internal use. .
9.1 User and Group Administration
Dialog
To administrate users or groups, start YaST and click Security and Users > User and
Group Management. Alternatively, start the User and Group Administration dialog
directly by running yast2 users & from a command line.
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