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==User/Security Admin==
 
==User/Security Admin==
 
*Commands:
 
*Commands:
**Users: useradd, userdel, usermod
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**Users: [[useradd]], [[userdel]], [[usermod]]
**Groups: groupadd, groupdel, groupmod
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**Groups: [[groupadd]], [[groupdel]], [[groupmod]]
 
==Hardware==
 
==Hardware==
 
*'''lspci''' - lists all PCI devices found
 
*'''lspci''' - lists all PCI devices found

Revision as of 16:54, 9 June 2005

Techniques: Software: Operating Systems: Linux Template:stub

Reference Links

documentation as searchable web pages

User/Security Admin

Hardware

  • lspci - lists all PCI devices found
  • To mount an ISO image as a folder (untested): mount -o loop

NameOfISO.iso /mount/wherever

Issues

The following may reflect my own ignorance rather than an actual shortcoming in Linux:

  • Development
    • There appears to be no mechanism corresponding to ActiveX (as

used for desktop app development)

    • There appears to be no application corresponding to [[Microsoft

Access]]. Yes, you can do all the same stuff with various available tools, but not quickly; v2.0 of OpenOffice is apparently going to include a tool which may be a step in the right direction...

  • Regular Use
    • In Windows, if you create a link to an executable script (batch file

-- *.bat) on your desktop (or anywhere), the link is executable with a double-click. Under KDE (in Ubuntu), I can't figure out how to make it execute at all without using a terminal.

Miscellaneous Fixes

  • Time Zone: If the KDE Clock-setting widget seems to be

refusing to set the time zone (or your system clock is refusing to show anything except GMT time), this command may work: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/NewYork /etc/localtime ...where "/America/NewYork" should be replaced by the appropriate file for your time zone. I have not been able to find any documentation on this feature; the command was suggested to me by someone on the #kde forum at irc.freenode.net (see [1]). Remember to use the console "date" command to verify what the system clock is currently set to. --Woozle 08:45, 23 Apr 2005 (CST)