Crating user and his rights

balrog · 2005-10-06 10:54:45

Hi I am pretty new to arch. Would like to know, how to create my user with same rights as root ( or with simmilar rights if that is possible ).

Next don't know what chroot means and don't know what ~/... means what directory is that? ep ~/xinitrc where I find this???

I'm not stupid but I started with ArchLinux as my first Linux distro so I need to explain some things I don't understand, but can't find any manual about commands to use (which command does what and so on).

Please help, would like to use arch but beginnings are hard to me.

Sorry for my english, I'm from Czech Republic.

THX

sudman1 · 2005-10-06 11:14:55

See the man pages for useradd and usermod to add a user to groups.

man useradd
man usermod

However, you should look at the sudo app if you need to do something with root priviledges more safely.

~/ is shorthand for your home directory. Typically, this is set to /home/yourUserName, but can be anywhere you set it during creation/modification of your user.

T-Dawg · 2005-10-06 11:22:09

typically you would do:

useradd -m -s /bin/bash username

then to set the password:

passwd username

to add the user to groups:

 gpasswd -a username audio

further info on this and the recomended groups for the user are in the wiki.

balrog · 2005-10-06 11:54:17

which group should I add my user to as rights as possible? (think rights to audio, video, hdd partitions, cdroms etc.)
THX

zba78 · 2005-10-06 12:10:31

On the issue of adding users generally I recommend using webmin. Just do

pacman -Sy webmin

Snowman · 2005-10-06 16:32:40

balrog wrote:

which group should I add my user to as rights as possible? (think rights to audio, video, hdd partitions, cdroms etc.)
THX

The common groups are audio, video and optical. check /etc/group for a list of available groups.

balrog · 2005-10-06 18:07:10

pacman -Sy webmin

And what next to add user to group? can i add my user to root group to have same rights?

and do I have access to /home/balrog (balrog is also username) if my fstab is

/dev/hdb3 /home/balrog ext3 defaults 0 1

next how to create xinitrc in my home folder?

THX

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