Sundry Users & groups over SSH non gui ?

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ron7000
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Sundry Users & groups over SSH non gui ?

Post by ron7000 » 2019/06/11 17:46:14

In using SLES prior to RHEL/CentOS, I would often SSH into my server and type "yast users" and that would give a text base interface to the user and group control panel, making it easier to add/remove/modify users and/or group accounts.

So far in RHEL/CentOS I only know vncserver and then if i remote in I can access the Applications menu - sundry - users & groups.
Is there an alternative if I only want to use Putty and SSH in to RHEL/CentOS to be able to work with user/group accounts?

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Re: Sundry Users & groups over SSH non gui ?

Post by TrevorH » 2019/06/11 19:11:46

There are cli tools: useradd, usermod, userdel, group{add,del,mod}, then there are utilities like getent for listing them.

You might want to look to see if cockpit does anything useful for you.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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