# 2.0 Proxmox Users and Groups

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##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Adding New Users**</span>

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Access the Proxmox GUI by entering the static IP you gave it into a web browser appending :8006 (the port) to it as well</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The default login for Proxmox is: root</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The password is what you set during installation</span><p class="callout info"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">**For security reasons, change/disable the root account and remove it from the Administrator group after you've made a user account**</span></p>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**EXAMPLE OF THE STATIC IP AS 10.0.0.5:8006 AND CORRECTLY GIVING THE PROXMOX LOGIN PAGE:** </span>  
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">![q66image.png](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/scaled-1680-/0pQq66image.png)</span>

2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Click on Datacenter &gt; Users &gt; Add</span>  
    
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Allow user to set their own username and password</span>
    - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Appoint user into appropriate group</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**IMAGE SHOWING PLACE TO ADD USERS:**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[![image.png](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/scaled-1680-/KR3image.png)](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/KR3image.png)</span>

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##### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Group Permissions**</span>

1. Click on Datacenter &gt; Groups &gt; Add 
    - Apply Administrator group on the Datacenter

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**IMAGE SHOWING WHERE TO CUSTOMIZE GROUP AND USER PERMISSIONS:**</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">![image.png](https://wiki.raspberrypiclub.org/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/scaled-1680-/nz3image.png)</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*Last Updated: 2/22/2025  
Contributors: Lilian, Vivian* </span>