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Unit 4: Configuring Desktop

enabling a user account notes

By default, all newly created user accounts are enabled. If you need to enable an account, you can
use Linuxconf to do it.
Start Linuxconf by typing linuxconf at the shell prompt.
Open [Config] → [Users accounts] → [Normal] → [User accounts].
Select the account you want to enable.
Select the the account is enabled check-box and then select Accept at the bottom of the screen.

Deleting a user account

While there are a couple options that let you retain files associated with an account, any
information or files deleted are gone and effectively unrecoverable. Take care when using this
option.
To delete an account:
Start Linuxconf by typing linuxconf at the shell prompt.
Open [Config] → [Users accounts] → [User accounts].
On the User accounts screen select the account you wish to delete.
At the bottom of the User information screen select Del to delete the account.
Linuxconf will then prompt you with a list of options.
figure 4.19: Deleting account screen

The default option is to archive the account’s data. The archive option has the following effects:
1. Removes the user from the user accounts list;

2. Takes everything contained in the user’s home directory and archives it (using tar and gzip
compression), storing the resulting file in a directory called oldaccounts. For an account
named useraccount the file name would be similar to:

useraccount-1999-10-10-497.tar.gz

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