Adding a User for Daily Use Working as root on a Unix/Linux
system is dangerous and should be avoided as much as possible.
Therefore it is strongly recommended to add a user for day-to-
day use. The groups the user is member of define what activities
the user can perform. The following table lists a number of
important groups you might wish to use: ||be able to access the
audio devices ||be able to directly access optical devices ||be
able to directly access floppy devices ||be able to play games
||be able to use emerge --pretend as a normal user ||be able to
access USB devices be able to mount and use pluggable devices
such as cameras and USB sticks be able to access video capturing
hardware and doing hardware ||be able to use su For instance, to
create a user called john who is member of the wheel, users and
audio groups, log in as root first (only root can create users)
and run useradd: Code Listing 1.1: Adding a user for day-to-day
use # useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash john # passwd
john If a