On 10/07/2012 09:49 AM, Klaatu wrote:
>> On 10/06/2012 09:02 PM, Klaatu wrote:
>>> I'd try something like:
>>>
>>> su -c 'usermod --uid 1000 username'
>>>
>>> -klaatu
>>>
>>>> Everyone:
>>>>
>>>> I hadn't been paying close enough attention, obviously. Turns out
that
>>>> sometime between F14 and F17, user accounts are supposed to have UIDs
>>>> of 1000 or higher. But all mine were in the 500s.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I created them all right. I gave them legitimate Unix names. I
>>>> can even make Samba users out of some of them. But I can't see them
>>>> in the Users and Groups section. Nor could I make them admins in the
>>>> "Create User" dialog. I had to create another user, a dummy
user,
>>>> just to have someone with admin privileges.
>>>>
>>>> What is the most elegant solution? Must I create all new accounts and
>>>> migrate the contents of my home directories from one user to another?
>>>> (And do a recursive chown on all of them as I work?) Or is there
>>>> another way to achieve the goal of having user accounts with decent
>>>> UIDs? (Short of setting up another box, that is. And even that is
>>>> problematic: I can't seem to get Samba to work properly as a
server,
>>>> though I made it work well enough as a client.)
>>>>
>>>> Temlakos
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>>
>> Klaatu:
>>
>> I just tried that on the user account I could best afford to lose. It
>> worked. I can still log into it, but now it's visible in Users and
>> Groups.
>>
>> Now: I know how to move that dummy user "out of the way" temporarily,
to
>> make room for my main user account. (I'd probably want to log in as
>> someone else when I did that.) But: how do I vest "administrative
>> privileges" in an existing user? And how do I modify a group? Is
>> "groupmod" the appropriate command?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Temlakos
>
> Groupmod would allow you to change gid's, so i'm not sure if that's
what
> you want.
>
> You probably want more usermod. To make user klaatu's primary group
> "klaatu", and to append supplementary group memberships - like wheel,
> most significantly for admin powers:
>
> usermod -g klaatu --append -G wheel,foo,bar klaatu
>
> I think that should do it.
>
> - klaatu
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The "wheel" group is one of the most valuable additions to Linux. If you
create your first user and check the Admin box, the installer makes that
first user a member of "wheel" and "dialout." Now I can understand
"wheel." But "dialout"?
Anyway, I added my main account to "wheel" and "dialout." Once I did
that, that main account had admin privileges. And even sudo privileges,
which I have sought for a long time. Now maybe someone can tell me what
privileges come with membership in the "dialout" group.
Temlakos
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I could be wrong, but I think dialout is about modems and faxes and stuff.
Maybe someone else knows better, but I think it's probably safe to leave your
users out of that group unless you actually do use PPP and so on.
- klaatu