Hey guys, welcome back. So we're all done with the development stuff now, and we're
moving on to some more basic Linux stuff. I say basic because this current
module is all about users and so it's a pretty simple stuff, but it is, the reason
we decided to do the development stuff and the other stuff before the user stuff
is because this is less used, less commonly used. I don't think it's as important
as the other stuff, however it's still important, so let's go ahead. We're gonna do this both
graphically and through command line. First, let's do it graphically so we can
get that out of the way and then get to the fun stuff. So, open up the system
settings. I realize that my desktop environment is now different from the
one that we started on, so if you're still on Unity just open up dash and type
"system settings" or just settings, it should find it. If you are on gnome or any other
desktop that uses
a full screen launcher with a search, it's gonna be the same. If you're using a menu you
would usually find this by going to system tools, and there should be a system
settings right there.
This system settings application should look the same on a lot of different desktop environments
that use gnome components, and so as far as I'm aware most
desktop environments actually use gnome components, including GTK.
If you're using a GTK desktop environment this is probably going to all look the same.
If you're using KDE or any KDE based desktop environments,
it's gonna look vastly different. Either way you should have a user accounts item
in here, so you just click on that. And now we've got no access in here, we can't
do anything right now because we didn't launch this application as sudo or root.
And so we have no authorization over this program to do
system level stuff, so we need to unlock it. So, just click unlock and then enter your
Linux password here, and now these buttons become enabled. So, hit the plus
symbol and you're gonna create an account.
Standard is basically a standard user account that doesn't have access to sudo,
and administrator would be an account that does have access to sudo. We're gonna get to that more
in a moment,
first we're is going to create a regular user account, give it a name, and just
gonna do this. It's going to create the account and we're good to go. Now, we could
log out to the login manager or the display manager and login as this user,
or we could go into command line and switch user if we wanted to. I'm not
going to for the sake of this video so we can get out of the GUI stuff as quickly as possible.
We're gonna just learn how to delete user accounts. So, just highlight it in the list on the left,
and then hit the minus button here. You're gonna get a prompt, it's going to ask you if you want
to delete files or keep files. If you choose to delete files this user's home
directory is gonna be removed. If you decide to keep files its just gonna leave it.
So, I'm gonna delete the files here because I don't need them, and them I'm
also going to delete this user account. So, that's all there is to it. Let's get
out of here and learn how to do this in terminal.