Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, please, log the bug. I did not use this for long time and nobody found it yet. Best regards, Milan On čt, 2013-09-12 at 10:35 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > On a recent install from 151a8 iso, I'm noticing the gui usr/group > tool starts and takes root passwd but then the little stop watch th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Stephen S. Jones
/ss_jones -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] Sent: Thu 2013-09-12 10:35 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable On a recent install from 151a8 iso, I'm noticing the gui usr/group tool s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:35:10AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Barring that, what is the best way to change the number assigned to a > users 'owner' bits so that user X has a specific number? > > Is it simply to make the change in /etc/passwd? > > Then chown all that users files to match? Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Lou Picciano
Hello Harry, I don't use this gui frontend of which you speak(!), so can't help with that... But there is a '-u uid' option to useradd; see $ useradd -h If you are going to start changing uids with wild abandon, you'll want to stick to 'regular' users. Note also that OI has set aside a group of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Harry Putnam
On a recent install from 151a8 iso, I'm noticing the gui usr/group tool starts and takes root passwd but then the little stop watch thing shows up and it stays greyed out forever. I've monkeyed around with useradd, usermod and groupadd to get the needed numeric gid for my user making file creation