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===== Creating a new account ===== | ===== Creating a new account ===== | ||
- | * login with the //root// account | + | * login with the //root// account or an existing account |
* change the system and root account language to English, if it's not already the case: | * change the system and root account language to English, if it's not already the case: | ||
* Menu => Administration => Langue => English (USA) | * Menu => Administration => Langue => English (USA) | ||
* Menu => Préférences => Langues => English, United States | * Menu => Préférences => Langues => English, United States | ||
* **reboot** | * **reboot** | ||
- | * create the new account:\\ Menu => Administration => Users and Groups (the **second** one!) | + | * create the new account:\\ Menu => Administration => Users and Groups (the **second** one if you are using the Cinnamon window manager!). The system will ask you for your password or the root password, if you are not using the root account |
- | * Add User: Warning, make sure the home directory will be created in ''/homel'' and not the default ''/home'' | + | * Add User: |
+ | * Warning, make sure the user's home directory will be created in ''/homel'' and not the default ''/home''! | ||
+ | * Choose ''/bin/tcsh'' instead of the default ''bash'' if that's the users's shell | ||
+ | * Unselect //Create a private group for the user// | ||
+ | * If the user has a LSCE account, you can specify the LSCE used ID in //Specify user ID manually// (type ''id user_login'' on an LSCE server and check the value of //uid//) | ||
* add the new //johndoe// account to the people who can use the ''sudo'' command:\\ ''echo -e 'johndoe\tALL=(ALL)\tALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/johndoe'' | * add the new //johndoe// account to the people who can use the ''sudo'' command:\\ ''echo -e 'johndoe\tALL=(ALL)\tALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/johndoe'' | ||
+ | * Logout from the account used to create the new account, login with the new account, and get some basic configuration files: **.cshrc**, **.login** and **.emacs** | ||
===== Installing new programs with yum ===== | ===== Installing new programs with yum ===== |