From the course: Raspberry Pi Essential Training
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Add users
From the course: Raspberry Pi Essential Training
Add users
- [Instructor] If you want to share your Raspberry Pi with another user, you should create a new user so they can log into their own environment with their own settings and files. To create a new user, run the command sudo adduser username. I'm adding my colleague Al here. You'll be prompted for their password, and you'll need to type it twice. Do note that Linux doesn't actually display the password when you type it for security reasons, so don't worry that you can't see anything when you type here. Next, adduser will prompt you for their full name and other details. These are optional, so you don't need to fill them all in. After you've created a new user, you may want to configure your Raspberry Pi to prompt you to provide a user and password on login. So to do this, run the Raspberry Pi config tool from the terminal. Go to System Options, and choose Auto Login. When asked whether you want to enable automatic login for the console and desktop, answer no to both questions. Select…
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