Setup users

Set root password

🔑 Use a strong and complicated password

passwd

Add your user

🧑 This will be your user you'll use to log in. For group reference see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups#Group_list

useradd -m -G audio,video,input,wheel,sys,log,rfkill,lp,adm -s /bin/bash yourusername
passwd yourusername

🎰 If you want to force your user to change password after first login:

chage -d 0 yourusername

Enable sudo

🧐 This will give your user administrative privileges

pacman -S sudo
EDITOR=nano visudo

💥 Uncomment (remove the # in front of) the following lines

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL