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    From Phil Taylor@1:275/201.1 to All on Tue Oct 8 22:59:06 2019

    Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added to the
    system is the main information such as the username being stored in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219.1 to Phil Taylor on Wed Oct 9 01:32:22 2019
    Hello, Phil Taylor.
    On 10/8/19 10:59 PM you wrote:

    Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added
    to the system is the main information such as the username being
    stored in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?
    The short answer is, both. The username is added to /etc/passwd (& /etc/shadow
    if applicable) as well as the MBSE users.data file.

    Andrew

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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Phil Taylor on Wed Oct 9 13:33:29 2019
    Hello Phil!

    Tuesday October 08 2019 22:59, you wrote to All:


    Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added to
    the system is the main information such as the username being stored
    in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?

    Both, when a new user is added first it is added into passwd having set up a home directory, with a special shell command then it sets up the user in it own
    databases.

    The directory used for users is in /opt/mbse/home if using the default PREFIX settings as defined using configure during build.

    Personally as I can run multi boot partitions across different drives I use /home/mbse instead of /opt/mbse. Note if you do this you MUST using a text editor change SETUP.sh before use and replace all instances of /opt with /home



    Vince

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