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- <sect1 id="ch-tools-addinguser">
- <title>Adding the user lfs</title>
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- <!--
- <para>When logged in as <emphasis>root</emphasis>, making a single mistake
- can damage or even wreck your system. Therefore we recommend that you
- build the packages in this chapter as an unprivileged user. You could
- of course use your own user name, but to make it easier to set up a clean
- work environment we'll create a new user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> as a
- member of a new group (also named <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>) and
- use this one during the installation process. As <emphasis>root</emphasis>,
- issue the following commands to add the new user:</para>
- -->
- <screen><userinput>groupadd lfs
- useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m -k /dev/null lfs</userinput></screen>
- <!--
- <para>The meaning of the switches:</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-s /bin/bash</parameter></term>
- <listitem><para>This makes
- <command>bash</command> the default shell for user
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-g lfs</parameter></term>
- <listitem><para>This adds user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> to group
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis></para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-m</parameter></term>
- <listitem><para>This creates a home
- directory for <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>-k /dev/null</parameter></term>
- <listitem><para>This parameter
- prevents possible copying of files from a skeleton directory (default
- is <filename class="directory">/etc/skel</filename>) by changing the input location to
- the special null device.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- <para>If you want to be able to log in as <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>, then give
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> a password:</para>
- -->
- <screen><userinput>passwd lfs</userinput></screen>
- <!--
- <para>and grant <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> full access to
- <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> by making
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> the directory owner:</para>
- -->
- <screen><userinput>chown lfs $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
- <!--
- <para>If you made a separate working directory as suggested, give user
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> ownership of this directory too:</para>
- -->
- <screen><userinput>chown lfs $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
- <!--
- <para>Next, login as user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. This can be done via a
- virtual console, through a display manager, or with the following substitute
- user command:</para>
- -->
- <screen><userinput>su - lfs</userinput></screen>
- <!--
- <para>The <quote><parameter>-</parameter></quote> instructs <command>su</command> to
- start a <emphasis>login</emphasis> shell.</para>
- -->
- </sect1>
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