Ubuntu :: Managing / Adding Users In Lucid?

May 7, 2010

Basically if you go through System > Administration > Users and Groups then I do not get prompted for a password, I cannot see the root account, nor can I add/modify other accounts.

I understand that Ubuntu has now moved away from allowing the root account desktop access which is ok by me even though it's very much in line with something Apple would do. (odd that this comes right after Ubuntu went all apple style with the default theme too.) However, I would like to add other accounts to the machine, for my wife and anyone else i choose for example. Anyways, pushing the "add" button does nothing. Thankfully the "help" button did work which allowed me to do the following workaround.

I managed to get around this by working through the command prompt, open terminal:

user> sudo -i
type in your password
root> users-admin

This allows the addition of accounts, also seems it allows the root account to be enabled though I haven't bothered to test it. The one thing I'll say is that it runs VERY SLOW!

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I have centos 5.4 installed (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 14 06:36:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and I am using WHM/Cpanel to manage my server. I am looking for a GUI utility, so I can graphically manage users/groups.

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[code]....

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Code:
sudo gedit /home/username/.profile
which I suspect is the problem, I should have written
Code:
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??)

Well graphical logging became impossible in my own account until I did the following in my own account:

Code:
chmod 777 .profile
chmod 777 .ICEauthority

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Code:
chmod 777 ~/Desktop/*

How to get my system back to normal. I think I got botched up permissions. If I create new user accounts, I get several error messages in these accounts.

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May 2, 2010

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The above password hash is for the word: password The easiest way to hash your password would be to grab it out of /etc/shadow

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Jun 29, 2010

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Aug 4, 2011

I have Ubuntu 10.04.2 (Linux 2.6.32-33-server on x86_64) with OpenLDAP 2.4.21 and Webmin1.550. I converted my ldap database from another system with the older style schema (OpenLDAP 2.3.3 with slightly older Webmin version 1.480) and no longer use slapd.conf, but the newer slapd.d format.

It all works fine except for one thing. When I add a new user, it lets me type in the additional LDAP fields:

But when I click the Create button, all the fields get jumbled together in the Title/Position box with a diamond question mark delimiting the fields:

Modifying existing users (which have the Additional fields displaying correctly) also has the same result - it moves the fields all into the one Title/Position box with the diamond shapes with question marks inside between each entry. Is it a problem with my schema files? I tried reverting to the older shema files and slapd.conf and it still did the same thing on the new system. I am really at a loss.

Here is also the output of ldapsearch for that user (host and samba ids are sanitized):

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I tried this:

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Aug 26, 2010

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Code: #!/bin/bash
# Script to add a user to Linux system
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then
read -p "Enter username : " username
read -s -p "Enter password : " password
egrep "^$username" /etc/passwd >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "$username exists!"
exit 1
else
pass=$(perl -e 'print crypt($ARGV[0], "password")' $password)
useradd -m -p $pass $username
[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "User has been added to system!" || echo "Failed to add a user!"
fi
else
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exit 2
fi

I need to see if I can get this script to read a file that list the usernames and their passwords using the pipe command (or some similar command) so I can just do it in one batch. I've done some searching but there are so many vairiations of the code that I've confused myself. Also, I'm not too familiar with linux, it's been a few years since I've used it but in the prior script, I need to add the users to an existing group named "forensics". Which line would I change/add in order to do this?

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Jan 22, 2010

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To elaborate, here is the exact sequence of events:

Code:
- Boot ubuntu and login to user A
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