Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

Timezone
Unless you live in Great Britain, you'll have to change the default timezone:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Select geographic area - Europe, America or whatever. Etc gives UNIX compatible time
zones including CUT, GMT, UTC
Select city
Follow the prompts to finish the config. The change should be immediate.
Create a new user with sudo-privileges
You may want to create a new user account for yourself.
Type in following command in the terminal to create a new user (for example the user
john):
sudo adduser john
Follow the steps.
To allow the newly created user to use the "sudo" command, type:
sudo visudo
Add following line under the "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" Line:
john ALL=(ALL) ALL
Now press CTRL+O, X to save and exit the editor.
Alternatively instead of adding the user to the sudoers list, you can add your user to the
sudo group with the following command:
adduser john sudo