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Finding Your Way Through Linuxconf

This table provides a quick reference for this chapter. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a complete quick reference for Linuxconf, which has many more capabilities than this documentation provides.

Table 14-2. Linuxconf Quick Reference

What do you want to do?

Where to find it in Linuxconf

Add/modify/disable/delete a user account

Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts

Change a user's password

Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts

Change the root password

Config => Users accounts => Normal => Change root password

Configure networking

Config => Networking => Client tasks => Basic host information

Create/delete a group

Config => Users accounts => Normal => Group definitions

Edit parameters for passwords

Users Accounts => Password & Account Policies

Disable tree menu

Control => Control files and systems => Configure linuxconf modules

Enable Web-based access to Linuxconf

Config => Networking => Misc => Linuxconf network access

Modify /etc/hosts

Config => Networking => Misc => Information about other hosts

Modify group membership

Config => Users accounts => Normal => Group definitions or Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts

Set filter parameters

Control => Features

Specify a nameserver (DNS)

Config => Networking => Client tasks => Name server specification (DNS)

View filesystem

Config => File systems => Access local drive or Config => File systems => Access nfs volume

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What do you want to do?	Where to find it in Linuxconf
Add/modify/disable/delete a user account	Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts
Change a user's password	Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts
Change the root password	Config => Users accounts => Normal => Change root password
Configure networking	Config => Networking => Client tasks => Basic host information
Create/delete a group	Config => Users accounts => Normal => Group definitions
Edit parameters for passwords	Users Accounts => Password & Account Policies
Disable tree menu	Control => Control files and systems => Configure linuxconf modules
Enable Web-based access to Linuxconf	Config => Networking => Misc => Linuxconf network access
Modify `/etc/hosts`	Config => Networking => Misc => Information about other hosts
Modify group membership	Config => Users accounts => Normal => Group definitions or Config => Users accounts => Normal => User accounts
Set filter parameters	Control => Features
Specify a nameserver (DNS)	Config => Networking => Client tasks => Name server specification (DNS)
View filesystem	Config => File systems => Access local drive or Config => File systems => Access nfs volume