Wiki: Post-Installation

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:

# matt 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:

# matt 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 :wheel" > /etc/doas.conf

Installing XORG

Xorg can be installed using a simple wrapper package:

# matt 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:

# matt 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