User Management; Adding Users; Deleting Users - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

8.9.1 User Management

Create and edit users with Security and Users > User Management. It provides an
overview of users in the system, including NIS, LDAP, Samba, and Kerberos users if
requested. If you are part of an extensive network, click Set Filter to list all users cate-
gorically. You can also customize the filter settings by clicking Customize Filter.
TIP: Applying Configuration Changes without Closing the Module
Whenever you need to make multiple configuration changes and want to avoid
restarting the user and group configuration module for every single one of
these changes, use Write Changes Now to save your changes without exiting
the configuration module.

Adding Users

To add a new user, proceed as follows:
1 Click Add.
2 Enter the necessary data for User Data. If you do not need to adjust any more
detailed settings for this new user, proceed to
3 To change a user's ID, home directory name, default home, group, group mem-
berships, directory permissions, or login shell, open the Details tab and change
the default values.
4 To adjust user's password expiration, length, and expiration warnings, use the
Password Settings tab.
5 Write the user account configuration by clicking Accept.
The new user can immediately log in with the created login name and password.

Deleting Users

To delete a user, proceed as follows:
1 Select the user from the list.
Step 5 (page 161).
System Configuration with YaST 161