[SOLVED] Adding a new user

D314 · 2015-11-08 21:58:24

Hello, I added a new user using useradd. How do I make this user have the same initial setup as the user made during the installation?

Thanks!

Last edited by D314 (2015-11-08 22:31:52)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-08 21:59:42

Why do you want to do this?

http://xyproblem.info/

What do you mean by "initial setup"?

damo · 2015-11-08 22:02:01

`adduser` is probably easier to use than `useradd`

Have a read of the manpages to see your options, and how to add a user with defaults.

D314 · 2015-11-08 22:07:52

Why do you want to do this?

I like the initial setup

What do you mean by "initial setup"?

This is what I mean when I say initial setup (this user was made during installation):

This user I added manually:

Have a read of the manpages to see your options, and how to add a user with defaults.

I did, but I don't think that's the problem. The user is fine, I just want all the defaults that were setup to the first user on the new one.

Thanks!

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damo · 2015-11-08 22:17:49

^ That's why you should use `adduser name`.

If you don't use the right switches, useradd will set up the user configs from `/etc/skel`, which doesn't contain the BL configs.

D314 · 2015-11-08 22:27:17

damo wrote:

^ That's why you should use `adduser name`.
If you don't use the right switches, useradd will set up the user configs from `/etc/skel`, which doesn't contain the BL configs.

Woah! That worked! Thanks.
Where are the defaults used by adduser if it's not too much too ask? I checked /etc/adduser.conf but it says SKEL=/etc/skel.

Anyway, solved!

Last edited by D314 (2015-11-08 22:28:56)

damo · 2015-11-08 22:30:57

BL configs are in `/usr/share/bunsen/skel`

If you could add [SOLVED] to the title of your first post, it might help others looking for an answer

johnraff · 2015-11-09 04:32:32

D314 wrote:

Where are the defaults used by adduser if it's not too much too ask?

The defaults are as damo said, but adduser doesn't access them directly. Any user logging in for the first time via lightdm should trigger the transfer of config files, by a script called from lightdm's config file.

To be honest, I'm not sure why the useradd-created user didn't get set up. Did you login through lightdm that time?

D314 · 2015-11-09 19:54:33

johnraff wrote:

To be honest, I'm not sure why the useradd-created user didn't get set up. Did you login through lightdm that time?

Yes I did. Here are the commands I used:

sudo useradd mari
sudo passwd mari
sudo usermod -a -G sudo,audio,dip,video,plugdev,netdev mari

(I copied the groups from the user created during installation)

Then I logged out (right click desktop -> exit -> log out) and logged in with the new user. Finally I solved it doing userdel and adduser.

johnraff · 2015-11-10 05:25:05

^well, it's water under the bridge now, but if you were still with the unconfigured user I would have been interested in some more info about the things in your home directory, login experience etc...

(I'll see if I can reproduce your results on a VM.)

Glad you fixed it anyway.

UPDATE: It seems that if you use 'useradd -m' to create a user home directory then it works OK.
( https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 7397#p7397 )
adduser is still recommended in most cases though.

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