Manage core users¶

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

 sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/cache/quassel --add-user 

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

 sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quassel --add-user 

In case this still gives permission issues (recognized by the 'Core is currently not configured!' message), try:

sudo -u quasselcore -s

followed by

quasselcore -c /var/lib/quassel --add-user

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

 sudo quasselcore --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore --add-user 

and for changing an user's password:

 quasselcore --change-userpass=someusername --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore 

(run as root)