Quassel IRC

h1. Manage core users

h2. Versions >= 0.5:

quasselcore provides two command-line options:

* --add-user

>Starts an interactive session to add a new core user

* --change-userpass=[USERNAME]

>Starts an interactive session to change the password of the user identified by username

*Note for Ubuntu (10.10 and lower) and Debian users*

If you install quasselcore via the default Ubuntu (or Debian) package then your config dir is in '/var/cache/quassel'.  

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

> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/cache/quassel --add-user </pre>

*Note for Ubuntu 11.04 Users*

If you install quasselcore via the default Ubuntu 11.04 package the config directory is now in '/var/lib/quassel'.

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

> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quassel --add-user </pre>

*Note for openSUSE Users*

If you install quasselcore via the openSUSE package (at least from the KDE:Extra repositories), the config directory is in '/var/lib/quasselcore'.

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

> <pre> sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore --add-user </pre>

and for changing an user's password:

> <pre> quasselcore --change-userpass=someusername --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore </pre>

(run as root)