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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="user-admin-change">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#privileges"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain" />
<revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>
<revision version="gnome:42" status="final" date="2022-04-02"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>You can allow users to make changes to the system by giving them
administrative privileges.</desc>
</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 administrative
privileges and which ones do not. They are a good way of keeping your system
secure and preventing potentially damaging unauthorized changes.</p>
<p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
to change account types.</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and
start typing <gui>System</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select <guiseq><gui>Settings</gui><gui>System</gui></guiseq> from the
results. This will open the <gui>System</gui> panel.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select <gui>Users</gui> to open the panel.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Press <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and
type in your password when prompted.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Under <gui>Other Users</gui>, select the user whose privileges you want
to change.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Set the <gui>Administrator</gui> switch to on.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>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
administrator 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>
</page>
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