FromXPtoLinux(28) Adding a User

We add a new user to our Linux Mint Mate system.

We add a new user and assign the new user a password that we create and we encrypt the new users home folder.

We create a second new user and give this second new user a password, but this time we do not encrypt this users home folder.

We look at the advanced settings and see how to add an office location, work phone number and home phone number. We talk about the User Privileges Tab and I mention that I gave one user all the privileges (in this tab) and the other user no privileges (in this tab), and saw no difference between the two (with Linux Mint Mate 7.1)

We also see how to deactivate an account, We see where the home folder is, that we will not talk about the shell in this series, that a main group for this account has not (yet) been assigned and that we are not going to talk about the user ID.

We look at the home folders and see we can not view Jacks home folder, because it is encrypted, but since we are the root user, if we don't know Jacks password, we can change it to something we do know and log in to this user-ID and view what is in the home folder. Looking at Jill's home folder, there is nothing in there (yet) because we have not yet logged in as Jill.

We login as user Jill and we see the home folder has created some default folders in the home folder, we see Jill can change her password and that she now has a group connected to that login ID with the same name as the login ID.

We see that Jill can not see Jack's (encrypted) home folder, but Jill can see the root User Michael's folder. She can view and execute files in that users home folder, but she can not add or edit any files or folders. Jack is able to see the root user Michael's home folder as well, but that is not shown in the video.

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