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aroc

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[SOLVED]Users and groups for a fresh install

I'm going to install arch linux x64 on my main laptop which has windows 8.1 (and EFI) so I've planned to use gummiboot, every works just fine but I'm wondering what would be a proper administration for my user, I want to have a main user and a guest user, I've seen a fair amount of tutorials and they all use different ways to do this and I'm not quite sure what to do, my main problem is the permissions that guest and main user should have, any help is welcome.

Also I'm sorry if my english is not quite as good as you'd expect.

Last edited by aroc (2015-05-31 15:08:34)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Users and groups for a fresh install

Welcome to Arch Linux forums :-)

What is the guest user supposed to do, what do you want to limit, what do you want to forbid?

Fixxer

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Re: [SOLVED]Users and groups for a fresh install

Also look here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups .

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED]Users and groups for a fresh install

Personally, I just add my normal user to the "Wheel" group, install `sudo` and uncomment the Wheel group line in /etc/sudoers then make sure subsequent ("guest") users are *not* added to the "Wheel" group.

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aroc

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Re: [SOLVED]Users and groups for a fresh install

Answering this

What is the guest user supposed to do, what do you want to limit, what do you want to forbid?

the guest user should be able to use all of the programs that I'd install, a couple IDEs for codding, search the web, use non-administrative functions on the terminal.

I looked into the wiki and I understood the wheel group and how to create users and link them to a specific group, I just didn't know how I should create the guest user, thanks for the quick answer, everybody.

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#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){
while(lifes>0){  /*Goals here*/  lifes--; }  return 0; }