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diff --git a/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc b/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc index cf7c23a..2584e63 100644 --- a/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc +++ b/modules/Working/pages/post-install.adoc @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ The following sections will provide a list of general recommendations to ease yo The remaining sections will describe how to use (on a user level) various Alpine-native solutions, such as the package manager, firewall, and so on. == Creating a Normal User - Now that you are up and running, you will want a normal, non-root user to perform most daily tasks with. You can either use the built-in busybox utility `adduser`, or the utility available in the `shadow` package named `useradd`. @@ -26,7 +25,6 @@ useradd -m -U -s /bin/ash jane <1> Once your user has been created, if the utility you used has not asked you to set a password, you should do so now, using `passwd foo`, where "foo" is the username in question. == Granting Your User Administrative Access - Sometimes, you'll want to do something that *does* require administrative powers. While you may switch to a different tty and log in as root, this is often inconvenient. You may gain root privileges ad-hoc using either the built-in busybox utility `su`, or the common external utility `sudo`, available in the package named the same way. @@ -58,9 +56,8 @@ sudo command with arguments <5> <4> You may need to log out and log back in for the group listing to update. `sudo -i` is the equivalent of `su -` otherwise. <5> This will run "command with arguments" as the default `sudo` user - root. -== Getting a Graphical Environment // MAINT: alpine-desktop, alpine-conf (setup-xorg-base) - +== Getting a Graphical Environment Most people will often want something more than just a raw tty. This section describes how to get a supported graphical interface, as well as some additional notes (for example, how to use a different type of GUI). |