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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage" group="#first"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="shell-guest-session"/>
    <desc>Add new users so that other people can log in to the computer.</desc>
    <!-- Setting 3.4.0 version to final for release, but we need to do something
         about the various comments in here, so incomplete for 3.4.1.
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    <revision pkgversion="3.7.1" version="0.2" date="2012-11-16" status="outdated"/>
    <revision version="13.10" date="2013-10-23" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

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  <title>Add a new user account</title>

<comment>
  <cite date="2012-02-19">shaunm</cite>
  <p>We need a note in here about password hints. Share content
  with user-changepassword</p>
</comment>

<comment>
  <cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
  <p>Let's add a "Disable account" page. Click the account, click the dots
  next to "Password", select "Disable this account" from "Type".</p>
</comment>

<comment>
<cite date="2012-03-24">shaunm</cite>
<p>Much of the password dialog simply does not work:</p>
<list>
<item><p><gui>Choose a password at next login</gui> does nothing</p></item>
<item><p><gui>Log in without a password</gui> does nothing</p></item>
<item><p><gui>Enable this account</gui> does nothing (and it's not even
clear to me what it should do):
<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655914">665914</link></p></item>
<item><p><gui>Hint</gui> does nothing:
<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647912">647912</link>,
<link href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643445">643445</link></p></item>
</list>
</comment>

  <p>You can add multiple user accounts to your computer. Give one account
  to each person in your household or company. Every user has their own
  home folder, documents, and settings.</p>

<steps>
  <item><p>Click the icon at the far right of the <gui>menu bar</gui> and select <gui>System Settings</gui>.</p></item>
  <item><p>Open <gui>User Accounts</gui>.</p></item>

  <item><p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
  to add user accounts. Click <gui>Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and type
  your password.</p></item>

  <item><p>In the list of accounts on the left, click the <key>+</key> button
  to add a new user account.</p></item>

  <item><p>If you want the new user to have
  <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrative access</link> to the computer,
  select <gui>Administrator</gui> for the account type. Administrators can do things
  like add and delete users, install software and drivers, and change the date and
  time.</p></item>

  <item><p>Enter the new user's full name. The username will be filled in
  automatically based on the full name. The default is probably OK, but you can
  change it if you  like.</p></item>

  <item><p>Click <gui>Create</gui>.</p></item>

  <item><p>The account is initially disabled until you choose what to do about
  the user's password. Under <gui>Login Options</gui> click <gui>Account
  disabled</gui> next to <gui>Password</gui>. Select <gui>Set a password now</gui>
  from the <gui>Action</gui> drop-down list, and have the user type their
  password in the <gui>New password</gui> and <gui>Confirm password</gui> fields.
  See <link xref="user-goodpassword"/>.</p>
  <p>You can also click the button next to the
  <gui>New password</gui> field to select a randomly generated secure password.
  These passwords are hard for others to guess, but they can be hard to remember,
  so be careful.</p></item>
  <item><p>Click <gui>Change</gui>.</p></item>
</steps>

<note><p>In the <gui>User Accounts</gui> window you can click the image next
 to the user's name on the right to set an image for the account. This image will
 be shown in the login window. GNOME provides some stock photos you can use, or
 you can select your own or take a picture with your webcam.</p>
</note>

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