1 The YaST User and Group Administration tool.
You will explore some of these options later, but for now you??™ll create a new user. In this
example, you??™re going to create a user called drone77. Click Add. Figure 19.2 will appear.
FIGURE 19.2 Set username and password in the first Add a New Local User screen.
YaST asks for the user??™s full name. This is not required, but YaST will use this information
to provide a suggestion for the system username. Because we already have a username
picked out, enter drone77 on the User Login line. Type an initial password for this user.
The Help pane on the left offers some pointers. The password must be between 5 and 72
characters; it is case sensitive (so mix in some capital letters) and can include spaces and
just about any character on the keyboard.
To give drone77 a chance to select his own password, you need to set the expiration date.
Click the Password Settings tab and Figure 19.3 opens.
The default settings are for a system in which passwords are set once and never changed.
This is OK for a single-user system with a modem connection to the Internet, but it??™s a
bad idea if you have an always-on connection, such as a DSL or cable-modem connection.
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