Ubuntu Server 8: Managing users & groups: How to?

[NoOp]

On 07/01/2008 09:06 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:51:47 -0500
> "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> > On 07/01/2008 03:44 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
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>> > > Thanks everyone, this has been extremely helpful.
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>> > You might also find these helpful:
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/index.html
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html
>> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
>> > [this last is for the desktop course, but you might want to book mark it
>> > and see if they eventually add a server course later on - warning: the
>> > large pdf's are 72.5Mb]
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>> 
>> One last question that I just thought of:
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>> I know to add users, you use adduser.
>> I know to delete users, you use deluser.
>> 
>> However, how can I list the current users on the system, much like "ls -lh"?
>> Right now the only way I can view users on my system is to do "vim
>> /etc/passwd", however I don't feel safe doing this... I would prefer a
>> read-only method if it is available.
>> 
> pager /etc/passwd
> It lets you scroll the listing up and down with PageUp, PageDn and arrow
> keys, q to quit.
> 
> Good Luck,

Cool! I'd never heard of 'pager' before - thanks.

For Robert. Do this from a terminal:

sudo apte-get install rutebook

And then from a browser, enter the following url:

file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/rute.html

Chapter 11.