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authorPhil Bull <philbull@gmail.com>2011-03-20 15:03:56 -0400
committerPhil Bull <philbull@gmail.com>2011-03-20 15:07:51 -0400
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id="user-admin-change">
<info>
+
<link type="guide" xref="user-privileges"/>
- <desc>XXX</desc>
- <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2010-10-31" status="stub"/>
+ <link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain" />
+
+ <desc>You can change which users are allowed to make changes to the system by giving them administrative privileges.</desc>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2011-03-20" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
@@ -14,8 +17,46 @@
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
- <title>Change who has administrative privileges</title>
-
+<title>Change who has administrative privileges</title>
+
+<p>Administrative privileges are a way of deciding who can make changes to important parts of the system. You can change which users have admin privileges and which ones don't. They are a good way of keeping your system secure and preventing potentially damaging unauthorized changes.</p>
+
+<steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click your name on the top bar, select <gui>System Settings</gui> and open <gui>User Accounts</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <p>Click <gui>Unlock</gui> and enter your password to unlock the account settings. (To give a user admin privileges, you must have admin privileges yourself.)</p>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <p>Select the user whose privileges you want to change and then click the option next to <gui>Account type</gui>.</p>
+ </item>
+
+ <!-- FIXME: Check that the definitions below are correct! -->
+ <item>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Choose <gui>Administrator</gui> if you want the user to be able to perform administrative tasks, like installing new applications.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Choose <gui>Standard</gui> if you don't want the user to be able to perform admin tasks.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Choose <gui>Supervised</gui> if you want the user to have an extra-secure user account which has extra restrictions on things like connecting to networks. Use this option if the user is someone you don't know (e.g. a "guest user"), or who may try to make unwanted changes to the system.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <p>Close the User Accounts window. The user's privileges will be changed when they next log in.</p>
+</steps>
+
+<note>
+ <p>The first user account on the system is usually the one that has admin privileges. This is the user account that was created when you first installed the system.</p>
+</note>
+
<comment>
<cite date="2010-10-31" href="mailto:gnome-doc-list@gnome.org">GNOME Documentation Project</cite>
<p>Explain how admin privileges can be given to other people, or removed. Warn the reader about how it's unwise to have too many admins on a system.</p>