Is there any GUI based Admin Tool for RedHat Linux

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Zhou, Jingchen wrote:
> Yes. I have used it before, but for some reason it hangs when I try to
> create a new group. In addition, I have a number of servers which are
> located far in the computer room and have no monitors connected, i.e.,
> not desktop kind. 
> How can I bring up this tool (or a similar one) from command line so
> that I can use it in my office desktop?  

You can use SSH with a tunneled X session (with -X) and run an X
server on your workstation, then run system-config-users for editing
user and group information, and system-config-printer for printers.
Without X forwarding, you'll get an ncurses-based GUI.


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