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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="user-admin-change">

  <info>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="user-privileges"/>
    <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>
    </credit>
    
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

<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>
  </comment>
	
</page>