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Add users and change sessions

Creating separate accounts, administrator rights, logout, automatic login and session limits

#Create another account

1. Open Settings → Users. Scroll down to Other Users.
2. Click the + button beside Other Users.
3. Enter a full name, username and password. The suggested username can be edited; it stays unchanged when you subsequently edit the full name.
4. Choose whether the new account is an administrator. Use a standard account for ordinary work; administrators can authorize system changes.
5. Click Add and complete the administrator authorization. The page becomes available again when the operation finishes or is cancelled.

Show account and login controls

#Log in as another user

1. Save your work, then use the Aurora menu → Log Out.
2. At the login screen, select the other account and enter its password.
3. If a session selector is available, choose Aurora or Aurora Compatibility, then log in.

Accounts have separate files, preferences, clipboards and activity journals. Aurora currently provides this logout-and-login flow rather than a graphical fast-user-switching control. Two simultaneous graphical desktops for the same account are unsupported; use distinct accounts for concurrent graphical desktops.

#Automatic login and removing accounts

Log in automatically skips the login screen at boot for the chosen account. Turn it off if you want to choose a user each time. See Login screen for the keyring behavior.

Removing an account deletes its home folder. Back up its files first and log it out before removing it; the active account cannot be removed. See Security and privacy for account protection and administrator prompts.