Re: [cobalt-users] User exists but doesn't show up in the GUI.

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu December 26 2002 10:02, James Dory wrote:
> I've got a similar problem. I have samba running on this raq4 and
> added users with the useradd method on command line. 
>
> Not sure what to do next. Any advice to get users into the gui? I
> can't do it by manually entering into gui as it says user already
> exists, as one would expect.

If you're adding from the command line, best to use the 'cadduser' 
command from the shell-tools package.  This creates the system 
username, but also puts all the user info into the PostgreSQL 
database so the UI doesn't get confused (the quota checking system 
goes bananas if there are users added at the command line that don't 
exist in the database)...

man cadduser

for more info on command-line options

> This raq is used for an internal company network and for now, mainly
> just file sharing. Now that I am starting to think intranet and
> would like the users to have access to some of the features- web and
> whatnot.

Login names shouldn't have anything to do with web access unless the 
director(y/ies) are password protected via a .htaccess file.  They 
should just point their web browser at the IP address for the RaQ (or 
the domain name, if you're running an internal DNS server) and the 
web content for that virtual 'site' should appear.

> I started researching meta-verify in the archives but don't really
> understand the big picture with linux and cobalt. I ran it though 
> ( meta-verify -f), and the script ran through the list of users.
> But it returned the following errors for each user:

meta-verify scrubs through the PostgreSQL database.  If you added 
users at the command line "improperly" and didn't get them into the 
database, that's why meta-verify doesn't work.

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Bruce Timberlake

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