User Management
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User Management

Procedure 2. Adding a user

  1. Open KUser, KDE's User Manager by going to Kickoff Application Launcher->Applications->System->User Manager (KUser).

  2. If a dialog appears asking you for a password, enter your user password.

  3. Click the Add located in the top left hand corner of the window.

  4. Type the username for the new user.

  5. Enter the user's details in the dialog presented to you and create a password for the new user by selecting the Password Management tab located at the top of the window.

    Example 1. New User Details



    Example 2. New User Password & Security



Procedure 3. Removing a user

  1. Open Kuser as noted in the previous procedure for adding a user.

  2. Highlight the user that you would like to delete.

  3. Click on the Delete... button.

  4. When prompted with the Delete User dialog, you have two options:

    • Delete home folder: /home/username - this will remove the user's home directory, therefor clearing up space on your hard drive. If there is information you would like to backup, do so before deleting this directory.

    • Delete mailbox: /var/mail/username - this will remove the user's mailbox.

Procedure 4. Changing a user's password

  1. Open KUser by going to Kickoff Application Launcher->Applications->System->User Manager (KUser).

  2. Highlight the user whose password you would like to change.

  3. Click on the Edit button if the dialog does not open immediately upon highling that user.

  4. After the User Properties dialog has opened, click the Set Password... button in the top right corner of the window. After entering in the new password, press the OK button to finish.

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