How to add new users to BackTrack 3
After installing BackTrack, it is important that you change the default password for security reasons. Also, you might want to add a user to the system so you can avoid using the root login as you don’t want to screw things up accidentally.
To add a new user, open up a Konsole and type:
adduser
This will guide you through the process of adding a new user.
keep hitting enter for all default values and select a good password:
your user is created but KDE still won’t let you log on because /tmp does not have the correct permissions. you will get an error saying “call to Inusertemp failed (temporary Directories Full?)”
To set the correct permissions type:
cd .. to go up one directory
chmod 1777 /tmp to set the correct permissions on the tmp dir. * see UPDATE *
now you can logoff root and login with your new user.
check here to install packages using slapt-get.
* UPDATE * – I found out on reboot these permissions get reset. To make permanent changes see here.
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April 27th, 2009 at 5:26 am
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April 29th, 2009 at 5:47 am
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September 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
How would I remove a user and also I may have overlooked it but how do I change the root password?
September 9th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
userdel, chpasswd