What groups should a new basic arch user belong to on the system?

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 00:03:23

Recently I switched from ubuntu to arch and I created a new user with:

useradd -m -G wheel wesley

I have sudo installed, so I assumed it would behave like ubuntu and the rest of the system would be read only, but I cannot even print the files with `ls` in any directory other than

/home/wesley/

Is there another group I need to add my user to be to have it behave like ubuntu or do I need to do

chmod -R 711 /

?

Also, is there a way to make the user start on boot in

/home/wesley

instead of

?

Thanks,
Wesley

Last edited by wesleynw (2018-09-02 00:04:07)

loqs · 2018-09-02 00:26:35

How did you create the user initially? What groups was the user in before you added wheel? What is the output of `id` for that user?
Edit:
Removed the group wesley as I realized that was the user you were modifying.

Last edited by loqs (2018-09-02 00:27:41)

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 00:36:18

loqs wrote:

How did you create the user initially? What groups was the user in before you added wheel? What is the output of `id` for that user?
Edit:
Removed the group wesley as I realized that was the user you were modifying.

The user is only in the wheel group.

loqs · 2018-09-02 00:38:46

loqs wrote:

How did you create the user initially? What is the output of `id` for that user?

Edit:
The command for the user creation should be in the history of the root user.

Last edited by loqs (2018-09-02 00:43:01)

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 00:42:32

loqs wrote:

loqs wrote:
How did you create the user initially? What is the output of `id` for that user?

I created the user with

useradd -m wesley && usermod -aG wheel wesley

The output of 'id' is:

uid=1000(wesley) gid=1000(wesley) groups=1000(wesley),985(users),998(wheel)

loqs · 2018-09-02 00:47:05

stat / /home /home/wesley
printenv HOME

What filesystem did you use for / or /home if it is seperate?

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 00:53:05

loqs wrote:

stat / /home /home/wesley
printenv HOME
What filesystem did you use for / or /home if it is seperate?

I didn't create a seperate partition for home in installation, just a ext4 parititon for /

 printenv HOME

gives

/home/wesley

 
File: /
Size: 4096  Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096  directory
Device: 10303h/66307d  Inode: 2  Links: 17
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid:  (   0/ root)
Birth: -

loqs · 2018-09-02 00:57:08

Did you use `stat /` instead of `stat / /home /home/wesley` as some of the output seems to be missing.
Also please provide an example of attempting to list a directory that fails including any failure output.

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 01:07:11

loqs wrote:

Did you use `stat /` instead of `stat / /home /home/wesley` as some of the output seems to be missing.
Also please provide an example of attempting to list a directory that fails including any failure output.

Y'know what I just solved the problem, when I did

su wesley

it was bringing me to some random directory and saying:

ls: cannot open directory '.': Permission denied

But once I move out from there it works.

But to solve this, is there any way I can change the starting folder of the shell when I move over to my user?
Such as /home/wesley?

jasonwryan · 2018-09-02 01:10:55

What does "move over to my user" mean? How are you logging in?

wesleynw · 2018-09-02 01:24:22

jasonwryan wrote:

What does "move over to my user" mean? How are you logging in?

I mean whenever I do su (user) from the root account, so open a terminal it opens into another directory. Is there a way I can set a default directory for my terminal to open in?

Last edited by wesleynw (2018-09-02 01:25:13)

loqs · 2018-09-02 01:34:41

Why do you not just login as that user? Or use `su - wesley`?

circleface · 2018-09-02 01:38:05

Isn't that kind of backwards? You should login with wesley and then su to root as needed.

Mr.Elendig · 2018-09-02 07:30:33

please post `getent passwd wesley`

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What groups should a new basic arch user belong to on the system?

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