documentation/docs/void-desktop-setup/post-installation/users.md

# Users

A user should be added to improve security of the system. 

```
# useradd <user>
```

Configure a password for the user:

```
# passwd <user>
```

The user may be added to certain groups, to give it some rights.

```
# usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,kvm,tty,input,storage <user>
```

The package `sudo` that is present in the `base-system` package will be removed. Since, it is bloatware. To persist this. That is sudo will not be installed ever again on the system. Create `/etc/xbps.d/nosudo.conf` and insert:

```
ignorepkg=sudo
```

Then remove `sudo`.

```
# xbps-remove -Ry sudo
```

The `sudo` package will be replaced by `opendoas`. To install it:

```
# xbps-install -Sy opendoas 
```

Symlink it to `/bin/sudo` so that applications which require root can still be granted by the user.

```
# ln -s /bin/doas /bin/sudo
```

And edit `/etc/doas.conf` to give users in the `wheel` group access to the `doas` command.

```
permit persist :wheel as root
```

To finalize this section, the `.bashrc` and `.bash_profile` configuration files will be copied to the home space of the user.

```
$ cp {config-files-repo}/bash/.bashrc .bashrc
$ cp {config-files-repo}/bash/.bash_profile .bash_profile
```

## User directories

It is generally beneficial to set default user directories. To obtain some consistency in the `home` directory. This may be obtained with the `xdg-user-dirs` package. 

It may be installed with.

```
# xbps-install -Sy xdg-user-dirs
```

then run:

```
$ xdg-user-dirs-update
```

This will create a whole suite of default user directories and in `.config` it will create `user-dirs.dirs` and `user-dirs.locale`.

With `.config/user-dirs.dirs` the syntax of of the directories may be set.

```
$ cp {config-files-repo}/xdg-user-dirs/user-dirs.dirs .config/
```

Then to persist the modifications.

```
$ xdg-user-dirs-update
```