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Dhraakellian, 05/14/2011 07:50 AM
being more specific that quassel comes from KDE:Extra (ie. not Core or Unstable:Playground)

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h1. Manage core users
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h2. Versions >= 0.5:
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quasselcore provides two command-line options:
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* --add-user
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>Starts an interactive session to add a new core user
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* --change-userpass=[USERNAME]
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>Starts an interactive session to change the password of the user identified by username
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*Note for Ubuntu (10.10 and lower) and Debian users*
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If you install quasselcore via the default Ubuntu (or Debian) package then your config dir is in '/var/cache/quassel'.  
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This means that you need to run quasselcore --add-user with --configdir=/var/cache/quassel and with permissions such that it can access that directory.  Usually this means running it with sudo for Ubuntu or as root for Debian.  So for adding a user the example would be
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> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/cache/quassel --add-user </pre>
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*Note for Ubuntu 11.04 Users*
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If you install quasselcore via the default Ubuntu 11.04 package the config directory is now in '/var/lib/quassel'.
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This means that you need to run quasselcore --add-user with --configdir=/var/lib/quassel and with permissions such that it can access that directory. Usually this means running it with sudo. So for adding a user the example would be
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> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quassel --add-user </pre>
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*Note for openSUSE Users*
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If you install quasselcore via the openSUSE package (at least from the KDE:Extra repositories), the config directory is in '/var/lib/quasselcore'.
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This means that you need to run quasselcore --add-user with --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore and with permissions such that it can access that directory. Usually this means running it as root or with sudo. So for adding a user the example would be
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> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore --add-user </pre>