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<section><h1>Adding a User in Arch Linux</h1><blockquote>Mon 15th June 2020 By David T. Sadler.</blockquote><p>In a previous post I installed Arch Linux on my Thinkpad X220. Since it was a very minimal install there are no user accounts except for the root user. So to add myself as a user I need to use the useradd command.</p><pre><code class="shell">$ useradd -m -s /bin/bash david</code></pre><p>I used the below options with the command.</p><ul><li>-m Create the home directory for this account.</li><li>-s /bin/bash Make bash the login shell for this account.</li><li>david The name of the new user.</li></ul><p>This creates a new account for me and also ensures that a home directory is created as /home/david.</p><p>The new account will require a password so assign one with the passwd command.</p><pre><code class="shell">$ passwd david
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully</code></pre><p>Now all I have to do is logout of the root account.</p><pre><code class="shell">$ logout</code></pre><p>Then login with the new credentials to confirm that everything is okay.</p><pre><code class="shell">suliman login: david
Password:
david@suliman:$</code></pre><h3>Links</h3><a href="/posts/arch/2020-05-25/installing-arch-linux-on-a-x220-thinkpad/">Installing Arch Linux on a Thinkpad X220.</a><a href="/posts/arch/">Arch - Read More Posts.</a><p>I don't have comments as I don't want to manage them. You can however contact me at the below address if you want to.</p><a href="mailto:david@davidtsadler.com">Email david@davidtsadler.com</a><h3>License</h3><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">The contents of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.</a><p>Copyright © 2021 David T. Sadler.</p><a href="/">Return to Homepage.</a></section>
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