User Administration in Gnome 48.1-1 and 48.0-1

[nitja]

It’s now 2½ weeks that I’ve resumed trying to get a fresh & current Manjaro-Gnome installation into a productive state (cp. gnome …).

A lot of questions (>30?) appeared (many of which I can hardly believe) which I couldn’t solve by myself searching Wiki, Forum, and similar.
Some of them may sound stupid (I’m pretty sure that I’ve overlooked obvious answers), but without solving them I’m now in a complete stall, soundly stuck and entirely weary.
Most questions relate to “how can I reproduce the functionality of the years old (but up-to-date) installation on my “desk-side” computer on the new laptop?” (The following one doesn’t.)

First question (in the hardly believable category):
I want to create a “test-user” to see which shortcomings/dysfunctionalities may be related to an incomplete or corrupt /home/〈user〉-directory, but …
On both machines I cannot find the user administration in the “Settings”(?) (gnome-control-center), where I think I found it, at least till Dec. last year.
And when I tried the stopgap CLI, it doesn’t know adduser nor useradd. And I find no library in the official repositories containing one of these. There’s one in the AUR, but using the AUR seems to be proscribed behavior when asking for help herein.

So: How can I add my “test-user”? (preferably per GUI)

[soundofthunder]

@nitja

I cannot find the user administration in the “Settings”(?) (gnome-control-center), where I think I found it, at least till Dec. last year.

You’re referring to Manjaro Settings Manager - that’s still there - but you can also navigate through the Settings app in GNOME; Look for;

Settings → System → Users; complete the details preferred for the new user, and click Add User > at the bottom of the dialog. All being well the new user should be available after the next reboot.

@nitja

it doesn’t know adduser nor useradd

useradd should be available by default; useradd without any parameters will generate the usual help showing available options.

What command did you use, and what was it’s output?

In case it’s convenient for quick reference, the terminal commands at the following link still seem relevant; scroll about halfway down the page to;

• User Management via Command Line

Regards.

[Mirdarthos]

Regarding:

@soundofthunder

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[Nachlese]

The command “adduser” is not present - at least not in the minimal edition.
The command useradd is.
And there is the gpasswd command as well.

The GUI way:

You should be able to just hit the “Windows” button on your keyboard (left of the space bar and the Alt key) and then just start typing what you are looking for.
“Users”, for example - and get a list with possible matches to your query.

Or type: “Settings” or open it from the menu and then navigate how @soundofthunder described.

[nitja]

@soundofthunder

Settings → System → Users

Oh dear! I guessed that’s been a stupid question! Clueless, how I managed to overlook that when going through all those options over and over again. (It has been moved one layer deeper, hasn’t it? Anyway, no excuse for overlooking it.)
Thanks a lot!

And, indeed, useradd is now known on both machines. And can hardly believe that (many times repeated) typos made me think that it hadn’t been - but that’s the only idea I have.

[nitja]

I use the search in Gnome’s “overview” ~ once a day. But “Users”, as well as other variations doesn’t give anything useful.

[soundofthunder]

@nitja

I managed to overlook that

Easy to do if one hasn’t used the functionality in a long while. Sometimes I get caught out myself.

Though, in my own defense I use multiple OS; it can be difficult to keep track, on occasion.

Regards.

[Nachlese]

My Gnome VM is set to my native language - there I would search for “Benutzer” or “Nutzer” and would immediately get presented with the link to the very place → Settings → System → Users

I use that all the time - it’s a nice and useful feature of Gnome, but also present in Xfce and Plasma. - practically in every Desktop environment (including Windows and Mac - but I wouldn’t know from personal experience

[soundofthunder]

@Nachlese

also present in Xfce and Plasma.

…and Windows, as well.

I’ll show myself out.

[nitja]

@Nachlese

Benutzer

Oh well - that indeed leads to settings. No idea why I hadn’t tried “Benutzer”. (scho’ peinlich)

[Nachlese]

Ah - auch deutsch
In that case the search for the english term indeed doesn’t find a match …