Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?
Hi.
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:14:36 -0500
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > With Gnome2 under Squeeze there was a users administration tool under
> > System->Administration->Users and Groups .
> >
> > Is there such a tool available for Mate under Jessie?
>
> I know this isn't what you're asking for, but you could have a look at
> webmin - it's not included in the repos, but webmin.com has a repo for
> Debian that you can use.
>
> It does this, and a lot of other stuff also. I find it useful for
> setting up packages and services that I'm not familiar with, since you
> can make the changes in the webmin UI and then see what has changed in
> the config files.
>
> They also have a package called usermin that is used for setting up
> per-user stuff, although I haven't used that much.
Firends don't let friends to use webmin :)
> Or, closer to what you actually wanted, you could take a look at the
> package "kuser". Obviously, it's intended for use with KDE, so it will
> drag in some KDE/Qt libraries if you do not already have them. I
> couldn't find any such tools for GTK with apt-cache right now.
>
> Ubuntu has/had GTK tools for this, I think, maybe it's possible to grab
> those and use them on Jessie? No idea what the package is called,
> though.
The package is called 'usermode', and it's hardly an Ubuntu invention.
Said package is provided by Debian main archive since squeeze at least.
Reco
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