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ljerez2007

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Registered: 2010-02-28

Posts: 4

Adding a user

Hello all.

This is my first linux distro install besides Ubuntu (which was too easy for me to learn much) and I know that I should probably create another user besides root, but I don't really know what sort of permissions etc I should give myself.

I know the command is 'adduser' correct? But can anyone give me a quickie little walkthrough on how I should properly add myself as another user?

vaderixor

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 14

Re: Adding a user

Hello all.

This is my first linux distro install besides Ubuntu (which was too easy for me to learn much) and I know that I should probably create another user besides root, but I don't really know what sort of permissions etc I should give myself.

I know the command is 'adduser' correct? But can anyone give me a quickie little walkthrough on how I should properly add myself as another user?

Have you checked the beginners guide on the wiki?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Step_4:_Add_a_user_and_setup_groups

the example they give is:

# useradd -m -G users,audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,power -s /bin/bash archie

You can just add more groups as necessary with "gpasswd -a [user] [group]"

ljerez2007

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Registered: 2010-02-28

Posts: 4

Re: Adding a user

thank you!

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: Adding a user

Adduser is interactive and fairly self explaining.

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