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<div class="hgroup pagewide"><h1 class="title"><span class="title">Change who has administrative privileges</span></h1></div>
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<p class="p">Administrative privileges are a way of deciding who can make changes to
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important parts of the system. You can change which users have administrative
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privileges and which ones do not. They are a good way of keeping your system
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secure and preventing potentially damaging unauthorized changes.</p>
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<p class="p">You need <span class="link"><a href="user-admin-explain.html.en" title="How do administrative privileges work?">administrator privileges</a></span>
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to change account types.</p>
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start typing <span class="gui">Users</span>.</p></li>
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type in your password when prompted.</p></li>
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<li class="steps"><p class="p">Select the user whose privileges you want to change.</p></li>
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<li class="steps"><p class="p">Click the label <span class="gui">Standard</span> next to <span class="gui">Account Type</span>
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and select <span class="gui">Administrator</span>.</p></li>
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<li class="steps"><p class="p">The user’s privileges will be changed when they next log in.</p></li>
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<p class="p">The first user account on the system is usually the one that has
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administrator privileges. This is the user account that was created when
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<p class="p">It is unwise to have too many users with <span class="gui">Administrator</span>
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<div class="title"><h2><span class="title">More Information</span></h2></div>
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<div class="region"><ul><li class="links "><a href="user-accounts.html.en#privileges" title="User privileges">User privileges</a></li></ul></div>
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<div class="title"><h2><span class="title">See Also</span></h2></div>
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<a href="user-admin-explain.html.en" title="How do administrative privileges work?">How do administrative privileges work?</a><span class="desc"> — You need administrative privileges to change important parts of your
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<a href="user-admin-problems.html.en" title="Problems caused by administrative restrictions">Problems caused by administrative restrictions</a><span class="desc"> — You can do some things, like installing applications, only if you
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have administrative privileges.</span>
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