Creating Users

Configuring your System - Creating Users

Congratulations! You now have a working Gentoo Linux system.

Before we do anything else, we should create a user account for you to work with. In order to keep your system secure, you should never log in as root unless you run into security problems or experience hardware failure. Substitute username below with your desired username.

login: root
password: <your root password>

# useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash username
# passwd username
# Password: <enter your password here>
# Re-enter password: <enter your password here>

Your user account has now been created. In order to run commands as root after logging into your new account, we need to emerge sudo.