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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="user-admin-change">
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<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#privileges"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain"/>
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<desc>You can change which users are allowed to make changes to the system by giving them administrative privileges.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-04" status="final"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="outdated"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>GNOME-Dokumentationsprojekt</name>
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<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<title>Change who has administrative privileges</title>
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<p>Administrative privileges are a way of deciding who can make changes to important parts of the system. You can change which users have admin privileges and which ones don't. They are a good way of keeping your system secure and preventing potentially damaging unauthorized changes.</p>
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<p>Click your name on the top bar, select <gui>System Settings</gui> and open <gui>User Accounts</gui>.</p>
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<p>Click <gui>Unlock</gui> and enter your password to unlock the account settings. (To give a user admin privileges, you must have admin privileges yourself.)</p>
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<p>Select the user whose privileges you want to change and then click the option next to <gui>Account type</gui>.</p>
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<!-- FIXME: Check that the definitions below are correct! -->
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<p>Choose <gui>Administrator</gui> if you want the user to be able to perform administrative tasks, like installing new applications.</p>
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<p>Choose <gui>Standard</gui> if you don't want the user to be able to perform admin tasks.</p>
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<p>Choose <gui>Supervised</gui> if you want the user to have an extra-secure user account which has extra restrictions on things like connecting to networks. Use this option if the user is someone you don't know (e.g. a "guest user"), or who may try to make unwanted changes to the system.</p>
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<p>Close the User Accounts window. The user's privileges will be changed when they next log in.</p>
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<p>The first user account on the system is usually the one that has admin privileges. This is the user account that was created when you first installed the system.</p>
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<cite date="2010-10-31" href="mailto:gnome-doc-list@gnome.org">GNOME-Dokumentationsprojekt</cite>
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<p>Explain how admin privileges can be given to other people, or removed. Warn the reader about how it's unwise to have too many admins on a system.</p>