I just created a new user on a server running SLES 11, and I created the user using the command below:
But whenever I create a file or directory while logged in as this user it creates the file's ownership permissions as "scpuser:users"
instead of it using the name of the group I added it to when I created it...
Any idea how I can get it to create files/dirs with the user:group combo I used when I created the User...? I'm guessing when
this user creates files/dirs and it gives the group ownership as "users", I'm guess this is some sort of default behavior?
Anyway, basically I just want this user to create files/dirs and have the ownership/permissions be set
using User=scpuser and Group=nagios...
Any idea how I make this the default behavior for this user?
I verified that the scpuser is ONLY listed on one line, and that is with the 'nagios' group in /etc/group file.
i just installed netBSD, and i want to know how to create a new user account. i understand that netBSD doesn't come with the tools to do that, so i downloaded a user utility (mebbe i'm wrong about netBSD) but the problem is, i don't know how to read files off floppy disks. (i'm quite new to unix)... (3 Replies)
Hello all:
I am new to UNIX and I am given the responsibility of administering a UNIX machine recently. The system is a IBM AIX 3.1. As a part of my duties I recently created some user accounts
using "smit". It looked as if everything went well. But, after creating the account, I logged into... (3 Replies)
I have AIX 5.1
I have created a user manually in the /etc directory.
Then I created his home directory "mkdir /home/fharvey"
then I changed ownership "chown fharvey /home/fharvey"
set his password "passwd fharvey"
When I log in as him I get "user is required to change password. "when I... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbe to aix 5.2. I want to specify the characters used by users while creating user in aix like specifying the length of the password
should i use some sript for that if it is then please let me know how to do this
if yes give me the link for the scripts.
Thanks in advance
... (2 Replies)
Hey everyone I am new to the forums and to Unix. I am currently taking a class on Unix, our teacher posed the question to us How do u create a user account without using GUI or command? We are currently running Knoppix version of Unix and for the life of me I can't figure out how this is possible.... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have written a program using shell scripting. When you run the file it will asks you to enter the user name, if the user exists it says " user exists " if not it will displays like " user doesnt exist" and then asks you like " do you want to add user with options Yes or No " if you say... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I logged in as root in solaris machine and made an attempt to create a user ,i am getting the following error message pls help me to resolve this issue
bash-3.00# useradd -d /home/kalyan -m -s /bin/sh kalyan
UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: Operation not... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit x86 m/c. I am using the following command to create an user.
useradd -d /home/new_user -m new_user -s /bin/bash
But, I am not get to see the "Desktop" directory automatically created.
May I know how to create it by default? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am working on setup a environment where only a specific user can upload the builds on htdocs of apache.
Now i want that a specific user can copy the builds on htdocs folder.
I created a group "deploy" and assign user1 and user2 to this group.
On Apache side i mentioned User=deploy... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Need your support
Redhat 6.5
I want to create a user with all(read, write, execute) privileges except that user should not be able to create any new user from his login
to perform any task. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: as7951
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xdg-user-dirs-update
XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1) User Commands XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1)NAME
xdg-user-dirs-update - Update XDG user dir configuration
SYNOPSIS
xdg-user-dirs-update [OPTION...] [--set NAME PATH...]
DESCRIPTION
xdg-user-dirs-update updates the current state of the users user-dirs.dir. If none existed before then one is created based on the system
default values, or falling back to the old non-translated filenames if such directories exists. The list of old directories used are:
~/Desktop, ~/Templates and ~/Public.
If an old configuration exists it is updated with any new default directories. Additionally, any configured directories that point to
non-existing locations are reset by pointing then to the users home directory. This typically happens when the users removed the directory,
so they likely don't want to use it anymore.
On the first run a user-dirs.locale file is created containing the locale that was used for the translation. This is used later by gui
tools like xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update to detect if the locale was changed, letting you to migrate from the old names.
xdg-user-dirs-update is normally run automatically at the start of a user session to update the XDG user dirs according to the users
locale.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
--help
Print help output and exit.
--force
Update existing user-dirs.dir, but force a full reset. This means: Don't reset nonexisting directories to HOME, rather recreate the
directory. Never use backwards compatible non-translated names. Always recreate user-dirs.locale.
--dummy-output PATH
Write the configuration to PATH instead of the default configuration file. Also, no directories are created.
--set NAME PATH
Sets the XDG user dir with the given name.
NAME should be one of the following:
DESKTOP
DOWNLOAD
TEMPLATES
PUBLICSHARE
DOCUMENTS
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
PATH must be an absolute path, e.g. $HOME/Some/Directory.
FILES
The XDG user dirs configuration is stored in the user-dirs.dir file in the location pointed to by the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable.
ENVIRONMENT
The XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable determines where the user-dirs.dirs file is located.
SEE ALSO xdg-user-dir(1), user-dirs.dirs(5), user-dirs.defaults(5), user-dirs.conf(5).
XDG XDG-USER-DIRS-UPD(1)