Chapter 1. Manage Users and Groups with pkusers

Last modified on $Date: 2006-04-05 21:17:51 +0200 (miƩ 05 de abr de 2006) $

You'll use this tool to create, manage or delete users or users groups from the database. Before you can assign print quotas to an user or group with the edpykota you MUST add this user or group to the database using pkusers.

The simplest way to add an user named jerome to the database is to type :

    
$ pkusers --add jerome

The commands above have created user jerome in the database. By default this user will be limited by page quotas, that is a maximal number of pages can be assigned to this user on any printer. This has to be done through the edpykota command line tool.

You can apply different sorts of limitations to an user or users group, by specifying a different value for the --limitby command line option to pkusers :

Here's an incomplete list of features :

For more details on the use of pkusers, please see this command's manual page or help.