[ubuntu-nz] user accounts

Andrew McMillan andrew at catalyst.net.nz
Tue Nov 21 11:09:50 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 15:39 +1300, Tyler Stevens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the latest version of Ubuntu, and I have one user account which
> is mine that I use to log in. I don't know how to set up other ones
> for my family, so I was wondering if it is possible to do this? Thanks

System -> Administration -> Users and Groups

Also, if you make them members of the 'admin' group they will also be
able to become root with the 'sudo' command - presumably something you
don't want to hand out to everyone, but worth knowing.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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