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Good morning
I turn out to be absolutely clueless, when it comes to manage the users of an Linux-based system, therefore I am still running my arch box under the root account, which is absolutely the wrong way to go and therefore I badly want to change it. As there is no other account created than the root account upon installing the system, I would love to be informed how to properly add an user, give it the proper rights (add it to groups it should belong to) and finally work with it.
I tried useradd and KDM already shows the new user, but I havent yet set password or home directory. Are these things created automatically upon first login. So what about the groups? How to manage them, so that I can add the new user to the administrator-group for granting it to execute su (which is necessary for su - afaik).
Thanks in advance for answers
cg
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Hi.
For adding users ->
adduser
(as root) and just answer the questions
For adding users to groups:
gpasswd -a <someuser> <somegroup>
as root. For example, type gpasswd -a dw optical if i want to add the user "dw" to group "optical". You should add your user at least to the groups optical, audio and users.
Bernhard
Ps: Nice to see Users from Austria here
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The typical way of adding a user is like this
# useradd -m -s /bin/bash <user>
# passwd <user>
A password is required to activate the account.
For groups
# gpasswd -a <user> <group>
If group not available
# groupadd <groupname>
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User added to system and groups. How to allocate a password to the newly created user? I manually created /home/$username but it is still impossible to login with the new account.
P.S.: I quote you on that. Feels more like home.
EDIT
Thanks for the additional information. I will immediately test the instructions.
EDIT 2
Worked more or less flawlessly. I just had to readjust some permissions and now everything works.
Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-02-21 12:27:21)
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