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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: KernelPanic on 12 September 2002, 01:46

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: KernelPanic on 12 September 2002, 01:46

If you'll all excuse my stupidity for one monent I have a question, well two;

1) How do you set you default WM from CLI?

and

2) How do you add a user (jane) from command line?

Thanks in advance  (http://smile.gif)

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: Calum on 12 September 2002, 02:20

well to add a user, you would use either "

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: Master of Reality on 12 September 2002, 04:21

'there are no stupid questions, only stupid people' -- Mr. Garrison

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: choasforages on 12 September 2002, 06:01

umm, on most versions of redhat,

saying "switchdesk kde" will switch to kde

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: voidmain on 12 September 2002, 06:14

1) Edit /etc/inittab and change the "initdefault" from 3 to 5.
2) a. # adduser jane
    b. # passwd jane

[edit] I believe I misunderstood your question on #1.  I thought you meant you didn't have a graphical logon screen and booted to a virtual terminal.  But chaosforages has the answer if you just wanted to switch window managers from the shell.[/edit]

[ September 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: 2 (stupid) questions
Post by: KernelPanic on 12 September 2002, 11:44

Thanks guys.  (http://smile.gif)