I just installed Pop now I need to create a user profile

[Napoleon M]

Is anyone familiar with setting up a user account login to work with the session login screen? manually adding a user using useradd and assigning a home directory would be useradd -d /home/user userID? Or is adduser the better option?

Second question if adding a user via commandline will that user have an x-session login by default? I mean a window manager? where would this have to be setup manually if not automatic?

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

If you don't provide the -m flag to useradd, it will not create the home directory for you. I use the command useradd -m <userid>, however your method does work, it just uses a pre-made folder.

If you are in runlevel 3, you will be command line only unless you run startx. If you set to runlevel 5, it will run a display manager and offer logins.

This also assumes that you have the window environment you want installed. XFCE vs. GNOME vs. LXDE and KDE are all available.

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 2:52 PM Napoleon M <napo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is anyone familiar with setting up a user account login to work with the session login screen? manually adding a user using useradd and assigning a home directory would be useradd -d /home/user userID? Or is adduser the better option?

Second question if adding a user via commandline will that user have an x-session login by default? I mean a window manager? where would this have to be setup manually if not automatic?

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[Napoleon M]

Awesome, thanks for the info! 

A follow up question... I am rsync the home directory over to the drive. If I use -av archive when I recreate the directory and make new user id be ok with chown and chmod after assigning them the directory? Also will I need to have hardlinks enable for the data to work with the integrated system?

[Napoleon M]

This is my problem https://serverfault.com/questions/19274/how-to-transfer-user-accounts-to-a-new-linux-machine

transferring a user account and /home using rsync, I am sure this is a common task. I have a bash script to make the backups on the home system for /etc files should anything go wrong. I want to make sure when the os boots that the login will have all users even after I added manually. This should be from the window manager, or default login, using the gnome login.