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<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage" group="#first"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="user-addguest"/>
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<desc>Add new users so that other people can log in to the computer.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.8.0" version="0.3" date="2013-03-09" status="candidate"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-11-01" status="review"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Projecte de documentació del GNOME</name>
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<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
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<email its:translate="no">gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Shaun McCance</name>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<email its:translate="no">shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Michael Hill</name>
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<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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<desc>Add new users so that other people can log in to the computer.</desc>
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<mal:name>David Aguilera</mal:name>
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<title>Add a new user account</title>
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<cite date="2012-02-19">shaunm</cite>
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<p>We need a note in here about password hints. Share content
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with user-changepassword</p>
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<cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
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<p>Let's add a "Disable account" page. Click the account, click the dots
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next to "Password", select "Disable this account" from "Type".</p>
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<cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
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<p>Much of the password dialog simply does not work:</p>
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<item><p><gui>Choose a password at next login</gui> does nothing</p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Log in without a password</gui> does nothing</p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Enable this account</gui> does nothing (and it's not even
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clear to me what it should do):
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655914">665914</link></p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Hint</gui> does nothing:
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647912">647912</link>,
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643445">643445</link></p></item>
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<p>You can add multiple user accounts to your computer. Give one account
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to each person in your household or company. Every user has their own
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home folder, documents, and settings.</p>
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<item><p>Click your name on the top bar and select <gui>Settings</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Open <gui>Users</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
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to add user accounts. Click <gui>Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and type
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your password or the administrator password, as prompted.</p></item>
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<item><p>In the list of accounts on the left, click the
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<gui style="button">+</gui> button to add a new user account.</p></item>
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<item><p>If you want the new user to have
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<link xref="user-admin-explain">administrative access</link> to the computer,
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select <gui>Administrator</gui> for the account type. Administrators can do things
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like add and delete users, install software and drivers, and change the date and
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<item><p>Enter the new user's full name. The username will be filled in
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automatically based on the full name. The default is probably OK, but you can
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change it if you like.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Add</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>The account is initially disabled until you choose what to do about
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the user's password. Select the new account from the list. Under
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<gui>Login Options</gui> click <gui>Account disabled</gui> next to
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<gui>Password</gui>. Select <gui>Set a password now</gui> from the
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<gui>Action</gui> drop-down list, and have the user type their password in the
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<gui>New password</gui> and <gui>Confirm password</gui> fields.
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See <link xref="user-goodpassword"/>.</p>
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<p>You can also click the button next to the
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<gui>New password</gui> field to select a randomly generated secure password.
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These passwords are hard for others to guess, but they can be hard to remember,
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so be careful.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Change</gui>.</p></item>
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<note><p>In the <gui>User Accounts</gui> window you can click the image next
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to the user's name on the right to set an image for the account. This image will
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be shown in the login window. GNOME provides some stock photos you can use, or
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you can select your own or take a picture with your webcam.</p>
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<cite date="2012-02-19">shaunm</cite>
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<p>We need a note in here about password hints. Share content with
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user-changepassword</p>
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<cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
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<p>Let's add a "Disable account" page. Click the account, click the dots
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next to "Password", select "Disable this account" from "Type".</p>
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<cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
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<p>Much of the password dialog simply does not work:</p>
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<p><gui>Choose a password at next login</gui> does nothing</p>
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<p><gui>Log in without a password</gui> does nothing</p>
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<p><gui>Enable this account</gui> does nothing (and it's not even
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clear to me what it should do):
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655914">665914</link></p>
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<p><gui>Hint</gui> does nothing:
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647912">647912</link>,
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<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643445">643445</link></p>
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<p>You can add multiple user accounts to your computer. Give one account to
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each person in your household or company. Every user has their own home
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folder, documents, and settings.</p>
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<p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
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to add user accounts.</p>
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<p>Open the <gui xref="shell-terminology">Activities</gui> overview and
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start typing <gui>Users</gui>.</p>
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<p>Click on <gui>Users</gui> to open the panel.</p>
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<p>Press <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and
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type in your password when prompted.</p>
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<p>Press the <gui style="button">+</gui> button, below the list of
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accounts on the left, to add a new user account.</p>
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<p>If you want the new user to have
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<link xref="user-admin-explain">administrative access</link> to the
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computer, select <gui>Administrator</gui> for the account type.
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Administrators can do things like add and delete users, install software
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and drivers, and change the date and time.</p>
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<p>Enter the new user's full name. The username will be filled in
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automatically based on the full name. If you do not like the proposed
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username, you can change it.</p>
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<p>You can chose to set a password for the new user, or let them set it
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themselves on their first login. You can press on the
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<gui style="button"><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/system-run-symbolic.svg" width="16" height="16"><span its:translate="yes">generate
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password</span></media></gui> icon to automatically generate a random
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<p>Click <gui>Add</gui>.</p>
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<p>If you want to change the password after creating the account, select the
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account, <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> the panel and press on the current
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<p>In the <gui>Users</gui> panel, you can click the image next to the
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user's name to the right to set an image for the account. This image will
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be shown in the login window. GNOME provides some stock photos you can use,
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or you can select your own or take a picture with your webcam.</p>