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To make your system more usable, you may want to install and configure extra packages.

Note

Currently MatterLinux has limited amount of packages, so there are lots of missing packages that some users may consider essential, such as a desktop environment. If you want more packages, consider contributing.

Installing OpenSSH

For remote access to your system, you can install OpenSSH server:

# mp-install openssh

You can enable root login, by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

PermitRootLogin yes

Adding new users

To add a new user, use the useradd command:

# useradd -m  <username>

You may want to configure doas to provide root access to the new user. To do this, install the doas package:

# mp-install doas

Then create a group named wheel for all the admin users:

# groupadd wheel

Add your user to the wheel group:

# usermod -aG wheel <username>

Lastly edit the doas confiuration (/etc/doas.conf) to give access to the wheel group users:

# echo "permit keepenv :wheel" > /etc/doas.conf

Why keepenv?

MatterLinux package manager has options such as MP_YES that are set with environment variables. To make sure that these options work keepenv needs to be added to the doas confiuration.

Installing XORG

Xorg can be installed using a simple wrapper package:

# mp-install xorg

Then you can use startx to start the xorg-server.

Installing a desktop

To easily install a desktop, you can use the xcfg tool:

# mp-install xcfg

You can then use the tool as a regular user, not that you will need access to the doas command in order to use the tool:

$ xcfg