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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers list the password settings for all the users Post 302085485 by muirhejs on Thursday 17th of August 2006 01:15:36 PM
Old 08-17-2006
Hello Irasela,

Can you please provide some more specific information:
1) What operating system are you working with-- password settings vary greatly between OS's
2) Can you give an example of the settings you are trying to retrieve?

Best regards,

- John
 

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gnome-settings-daemon(1)					   User Commands					  gnome-settings-daemon(1)

NAME
gnome-settings-daemon - manages the user settings for the GNOME desktop SYNOPSIS
gnome-settings-daemon DESCRIPTION
This daemon, which is started by gnome-session, manages some of the user settings for the desktop, such as the font, keyboard and mouse be- haviour; sound preferences; the background management if nautilus is not running; custom keybindings handling; and so on. OPTIONS
None. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of gnome-settings-daemon: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-settings-Themcommand-line executable for the application. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
Written by Erwann Chenede, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 2 Oct 2003 gnome-settings-daemon(1)
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