9.2 User Management with Cockpit

If the Cockpit web interface is installed and enabled on the system (a topic covered in the chapter entitled “An Overview of the Fedora 31 Cockpit Web Interface”), a number of user management tasks can be performed within the Accounts screen shown in Figure 9-1 below:

Figure 9-1

The screen will display any existing user accounts on the system and provides a button to add additional accounts. To create a new account, click on the Create New Account button and enter the requested information in the resulting dialog (Figure 9-2). Note that the option is also available to create the account but to lock it until later:

Figure 9-2

To modify a user account, select it from the main screen and make any modifications to the account details:

Figure 9-3

This screen allows a variety of tasks to be performed including locking or unlocking the account, changing the password or forcing the user to configure a new password...