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If the the above worked, you have created an administrative account with user name:<code>id xlp</code>. | |||
Revision as of 00:15, 9 July 2021
The following instruction steps are inspired by the article[1]:
To add a new user account with administrator access, one must follow these steps:
- Log in to the system with root access, using a terminal applications.
- Create a new user name, say
xlp, by using theaddusercommand:
adduser xlp
- Make the user xlp, possess
adminrights.
usermod -aG sudo xlp
- Verify its rights using
id xlp - Log in as
xlp, by key in the following command
su - xlp
- Then run some
sudocommand
sudo ls -l /etc/
If the the above worked, you have created an administrative account with user name:id xlp.