From the course: Choosing a Linux Distribution
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Using Alpine Linux - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Choosing a Linux Distribution
Using Alpine Linux
- [Instructor] Once it's installed and rebooted, I'll log into my Alpine system with the username root and the password that I set during the installation. Commonly, we don't want to run a system as root, but in most use cases, an Alpine system won't need additional users because it's just performing whatever single task it's in charge of. Multiple users don't log into a container or into a network router, so root is usually all that's needed. We can configure other users though using the add user Command and we can set their password using the password Command. If you plan to use Alpine as your primary desktop environment, you should create a user for yourself. I mentioned earlier that Alpine comes with the Almquist shell, which is included as part of BusyBox. And that's the shell that we have here once we log in. If you're accustomed to working with the Command line in a shell like bash, you'll probably find the shell…
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