<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>
