How to create a new User in Qubes OS 4?

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n6-w...@tuta.io

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Jun 1, 2019, 6:05:33 PM6/1/19
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Hi!

I need help to create a new user in Qubes OS 4.0.

I went to “System Tools - Xfce Terminal”

I did:

useradd -m user
passwd user

usermod -a -G sudo user = ERROR

I can’t login with my my new user.
Login don’t accept my new created user and password.

I can't find user+groups manager into Qubes OS 4.0.

What to do?

Please help, thanks!

unman

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Jun 1, 2019, 8:51:00 PM6/1/19
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I assume you ran those commands under sudo or as root.
ERROR - no help at all - the group is "wheel" not "sudo"
Otherwise, those commands are correct to set up new user.




Ilpo Järvinen

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Jun 2, 2019, 5:21:31 PM6/2/19
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You want to put the new user into wheel and qubes groups.

The other issue might be that your login manager could launch more than
one X server behind your back and some gui stuff has some challenges in
handling that. ...Then, next you will face issues with the menu I
guess. ;-)

I have a working multi-user qubes system myself (the other users have
only a locked down view to dom0). It works about ok for my use case but
requires some trickery with tags (and current one patch which I've not yet
sent out).

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