Post installation

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Post installation recommendations

When # is displayed in a command that means the command needs to be run with root privileges,

Anything in < > is likely just a placeholder that you need to replace (e.g <editor> file.txt)

Creating a new user account

After installing Alpine by default you only get a root account. You will probably want to create an account that is not root,

# adduser <YourUsername>

replace <YourUsername> with the username of your choice

You will probably want to install doas so we can allow <YourUsername> to use root privileges

# apk add doas

If you want your user to be able to use root privileges add them to the Wheel group

# adduser <YourUsername> wheel

Allow members of the Wheel group to use root privileges with doas:

# <editor> /etc/doas.d/doas.conf

add this to a new line:

# permit persist :wheel

Switch to the new account type exit in the shell and login with the new user,

By default the permissions of your new user(s) home directory may be limited to the root account, run one of these commands to change that:

# chmod 700 /home/<YourUsername>

or

# chmod 777 /home/<YourUsername>

Repositories

By default only the main repository is enabled, most users will probably want the community repository,

# <editor> /etc/apk/repositories

Example default configuration:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

#/media/cdrom/apks http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/main # http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing

Note: The edge repositories contain unstable and/or possibly untested packages use at your own risk!

To avoid having to manually update the verison in /etc/apk/repositories for each Alpine Linux update change v.3.15 to latest-stable

Example:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

#/media/cdrom/apks http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/main # http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community #http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing

For security purposes it may be a good idea to change the links from http to https

Example:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

#/media/cdrom/apks https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/main # https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/community #https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main #https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community #https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing