Slackware tips — quick and easy things to make the box work better

Posted by suvi under Linux, Tricks

Here are a few quick tips to make Slackware work a bit better.

Groups for your primary user account

When creating your first user account, make sure you pick the right groups.

Slackware is a bit unusual as far as Linux distributions go in that it doesn’t create a user account during the installation process.

After the installation is complete, you need to log in as root with the password you chose during the install. Then create an account with adduser. I do this before starting X:

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