[homesy]

I have just been reading that it is not advisable to run Linpus Linux Lite as Root. How do I set up another user?

Why is it not a good idea to run as root??

[saikee]

If you run Linux as an ordinary user any attack to your PC will not be able to damage the system files because the attacker, latching onto you, has no root privileges.

Thus any virus, malware etc only get to your personal data and settings and nothing else.

Linux is secure because every file has an ownership. The system can protect files of one owner from the destruction by another owner. The toot user is the admin in MS Windows which has brought up a huge population of PC users log in as Admin and suffer all kind of attacks.

[rob.rice]

OK you want to set up a user account on a little used distro
you can try from the command line the adduser command ( I think this is in all distros )
all you realy need to give it is the user name , pass word , and the names of the groups
you want to add the user to like audio , video , cdrom and may be plugdev

or you can even edit files by hand and run passwd to set the users pass word

[DoubleHelix]

Why do you need to setup another user? You're not logging in as "root" on an Acer Aspire One running Linpus Lite.

[homesy]

Oh right, I didn't realise. I haven't set up any user accounts, I have only set a password for root