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ragna, 01/19/2019 09:52 PM

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h1. Manage core users 
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First the existing quasselcore commandline switches to add a user and to change a user's password are discussed. This is followed by a section on disabling and deleting users, as this is not yet available as a quasselcore switch; bug report and workarounds are provided.
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h2. Add a user (Version >= 0.5) 
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quasselcore provides a command-line option:
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* --add-user
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>Starts an interactive session to add a new core user
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h3. Quassel Core permissions and config location (notes for Ubuntu and Debian users)
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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 (and later) 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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In case this still gives permission issues (recognized by the 'Core is currently not configured!' message), try:
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> <pre>sudo -u quasselcore -s</pre> 
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followed by 
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> <pre>quasselcore -c /var/lib/quassel --add-user</pre>
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Similarly, it's necessary to be running as the correct user for password changes.  For Ubuntu (and Debian with the correct path) this works, although you will have to stop a running core first:
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> <pre>sudo start-stop-daemon --start --chuid 'quasselcore' --exec 'quasse/usr/bin/quasselcore' --configdir='var/lib/quassel' --change-userpass=$USER_TO_BE_CHANGED</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>
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and for changing an user's password:
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> <pre> quasselcore --change-userpass=someusername --configdir=/var/lib/quasselcore </pre>
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(run as root)
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h2. Change a user's password (Version >= 0.5)
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quasselcore provides a command-line option:
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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: please see the quassel core permissions and config location section above!
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h2. Disable a user account
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Disabling a user account prevents login, but their backlog and settings are still kept.
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Quassel Core does not have a commandline switch to disable a user's account. As a workaround for disabling an account, change their password to an arbitrary long string.
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h2. Delete a user account
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Disabling a user account prevents login, and their backlog and settings are also removed.
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Deletion of users as a quasselcore --del-user switch is not implemented. It is tracked as a feature request:
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- https://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/909
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There is a script [[Delete_Users|to delete users]] directly from the database.