How to Manage Users & Groups With GUI on Fedora / CentOS / Red-Hat / Oracle Linux Desktops Easy Guide

Setting Up Users/Groups on Red-Hat Linux Based Desktops

You are Welcomes, this Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Easily Manage Create/Delete/SetUp Users and Groups on Red-Hat/CentOS/Fedora/Oracle Linux Desktops with the system-config-users GUI Tool.

system-config-users provides a graphical interface for adding and removing users and groups to the system.
Once started system-config-users provides a help feature to assist in learning the interface.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Launch system-config-users Tool.

   sudo system-config-users

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

• Creating a New User
  Click on Add User

  
  

  Chose the Login/Nologin Shell.
  You Can Specify:

  • If Creating the Primary Group

  • If Creating the Home Directory

  • User ID

  • Group ID

• Creating a New Group
  Click on Add Group

  
  

  You Can Specify the Group ID Manually.

• Managing Users
  Select User >> Click on Properties

  
  
  From the “User Data” tab you can Change:

  • Username

  • Full Name

  • Password

  • Login Shell

  
  
  From the “Account info” tab you can Set:

  • Account Expiration

  • Local Password Lock

  
  
  From the “Password info” tab you can Set:

  • Password Expiration

  • Days before Pass Expiration

  • Forcing Password Change on Next Login

  
  
  From the “Groups” tab you can Set the User’s Groups:
  
  
  Important: To Enable the New Group for a Logged In User you have first to Log-Out!

• Managing Groups
  Select Group >> Click on Properties

  
  
  You Can Change the Group Name:
  
  
  And you Can Add/Remove Users from the Group:
  






• Deleting Users/Groups
  Select User/Group >> Click on Delete

  
  Then Confirm for Deletion!