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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-accounts#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" date="2011-04-04" status="final"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="final"/>
<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.</p>
</item>
<item><p>Click the label <gui>Standard</gui> next to <gui>Account type</gui> and select <gui>Administrator</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Close the User Accounts window. The user's privileges will be changed when they next log in.</p>
</item>
</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>
<p> It is unwise to have too many users with <gui>Administrator</gui> privileges on one 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>
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