Administrative Account

The following instruction steps are inspired by the article:

To add a new user account with administrator access, one must follow these steps:

1. Log in to the system with root access, using a terminal applications.
2. Create a new user name, say xlp, by using the adduser command:

adduser xlp

1. Make the user xlp, possess admin rights.

usermod -aG sudo xlp

1. Verify its rights using id xlp
2. Log in as xlp, by key in the following command

su - xlp

1. Then run some sudo command

sudo ls -l /etc/

If the the above worked, you have created an administrative account with user name:id xlp.