Raspberry Pi Linus LESSON 21: Create a New admin User Like Pi

This video shows how to create a new user account on the Raspberry Pi with the same admin privileges as Pi. This will give access to the sudo command and allow system modifications.

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[TheLanie]

For people following this tutorial the "indiecity" usermod no longer exists, just run the same command as Paul does but without the "indiecity" and it should still work fine.

[roberthackenberg]

Hi Paul, just dropping you a line to tell you I’m enjoying your lessons. I have been using a pi for some time but it is good to go back to basics and learn the correct method. Thanks. 👍

[erygion]

Great tutorial Mr. Mcwhorter. Easy to understand and works great even today with the raspberry pi 4. (I'm using 3b+)

[christran]

I just wanted to point out that in Lesson 19 you used "sudo useradd" and here you used "sudo adduser".

I was curious about the difference so I googled it. For our purposes here it doesn't make a difference, but I was taking notes and so I noticed. I guess with other distros using "useradd" won't create a home directory for the new user but "adduser" will? It's something along those lines, and a few other differences. I guess for Raspbian the "useradd" still created the home directory for the new user.

[Oetjel]

Hey paul, I followed your video but in my case the indiecity usermod group does not exist can you help me with this.

[TheRangeControl]

no "indiecity" please advise...

[Howardk]

Hi, you forgot some groups the pi user should be in. It's "spi" and "gpio".

[johnkillian]

How can I change the existing user pi password raspberry to a new user and password? or would it better to just add myself as a user?
I really like your series on the rpi2!

thanks

[Replacedhumans]

after evrything about sudo usermod -a -G >> , usermod: group '' does not exist
what king of hell is that ?

[xxaboodx]

your lessons are very good but I think it need some classification