Users

At the first boot

Would you like to create a user account? [n]: answer y to make one. It asks the login name and the full name, makes the account with the Korn shell (/usr/bin/ksh), creates its home directory /home/name from the files in /etc/skel, and lets you give it a password.

/home is a partition of its own (1424 MiB on the 1.1 images), mounted at every boot, so your files stay apart from the system.

Later, as root

useradd -s /usr/bin/ksh -c "Full Name" -m name
passwd name

-m makes the home directory under /home. To remove an account with its home: userdel -r name. Neither -m nor -r is tested on 1.1 yet.

What every login gets

• The search path has the added software ahead of the original, and packages add theirs through /etc/profile.d.
• man shows the pages of the added software too.
• A file can be up to 2 GiB.

Services, SSH and the clock · Disks