Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

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.

<chuckle>
I do prefer single use tools to the "Swiss Army knife".
Also, I was looking not only for my own use but to install on a 
non-geek friend's system.
Besides I'm on dialup so would have to visit local library to 
download.


> They also have a package called usermin that is used for setting up
> per-user stuff, although I haven't used that much.
>
> 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.

I loaded it, but it crashed in weird ways. I won't blame it yet 
as I had some strange errors when installing Jessie this time 
around. There may be hardware problems.

> 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.
>
> Petter