Setting up users

[Fuzzy_duck]

Hello. Being a newbie, at times, renders me helpless at doing relatively simple tasks.

When I installed OpenSuse, I choose a User Name , and a Root Password ( "first_root_password).
I wanted to create a regular user , so I went to Control Center, at User And Group Management, I created a second user with a default group "Users" and for my first user account I set the default groups to "Root" and also a new root password.

Was this the right way?

I'm asking this because whenever I install a software, and it asks for the root password, the new one doesn't work, and only the first one (first_root_password), is accepted.

I managed to properly change the root password using terminal commands. But I'm still not sure how to correctly set up accounts and privileges .

Please help me. Thank you.

[oz]

I always add users by command line using the adduser or useradd command. Just switch to root user, enter the command and follow the prompts:

adduser

Maybe some GUI guys will chime in with tips for doing it that way.

[oz]

I should add here that you can get more info for using those commands from the manual pages for each command. Just run man command_name in a terminal:

man useradd
man adduser