Creating a user for Cardano Node
Before we start the installation process, let's create a user for our Cardano pool project. Let's name this user "cardano" and give the administrative user "power" to it.
Let's start by creating our new user "cardano" by typing the following command:
sudo adduser cardano
by executing this command you will be requested to enter your password and then to set a password for this user as well as additional information
Congratulations - we just created our new user! Now - let's give this user administrative power by typing this:
sudo usermod -aG sudo cardano
Great! Now the user cardano has administrative power! Whenever we need to run a command with administrative privilege- run the command by adding in front of it additional command - sudo
Sudo, the one command to rule them all. It stands for “super user do!” Pronounced like “sue dough”. allows a permitted user to execute a command as root user (administrator/superuser) allows a permitted user to execute a command as root user (administrator/super user)
Let's switch to our new user:
sudo su - cardano
cardano@localhost:~$
If everything goes as planned then you should be now logged in as user "cardano", let's double-check by typing:
whoami
as a reply, you should see the current user username
cardano@localhost:~$ whoami cardano
Let's check if we can execute commands with root privileges (as administrator) by typing:
sudo whoami
cardano@localhost:~$ sudo whoami [sudo] password for cardano: xxx root
before you can execute commands as a root user, you will have to type the user's password (for Cardano user) to authenticate yourself. After authentication - you will see that the command this time was executed as a root user!
Great! We have created a user and let's proceed now to the installation process!
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