Re: Jessie Mate - a GUI user admin tool?
Hi.
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:51:34 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
>
> I loaded with Synaptic and it did not appear in any of the
> drop-down menus.
> I tried CLI as root and got
> bash: usermode: command not found
>
> As I said in another message, I've some other system level
> strangeness to check out.
It does not work that way. What you need to run is:
/usr/bin/userpasswd
or,
/usr/bin/userinfo
Basically,
dpkg -L usermode | egrep '^/usr/s?bin'
Reco
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