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6. Creating a user account

At this stage you have installed all the necessary files and set up Linux for your machine. Now you need to create an account for a user on your machine (it is generally considered a bad idea to log in as ``root'' when it's not necessary). To create a user account, type:

adduser <username>
passwd <username>

where you can replace <username> with whatever name you want on your system. The ``passwd'' command will prompt you for a password for the user.

Note that you can do this multiple times if several people will be using Linux on this machine.

You are now ready to log in as a normal user and start Blue. First, log out of the system as root:

exit


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