# 2 Add user

After initial installation, Zabbix has only two users defined. User
"Admin" is a Zabbix superuser, which has full permissions. User "guest"
is a special default user. If a user does not log in, the user will be
accessing Zabbix with "guest" permissions. By default, "guest" has no
permissions on Zabbix objects.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/userlist.png){width="600"}

To add a new user, navigate to Administration → Users and switch to
*Users* in the dropdown, then click "Create User".

In the new user form, make sure to add your user to one of the existing
groups, for example **Network administrators**.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/new_user.png)

By default, new users have no media (notification methods) defined. To
create one, click *Add* in the **Media** section.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/add_media.png)

In this popup, enter an e-mail address for the user. You can specify a
time period when the medium will be active (see [Time period
specification](/manual/config/time_period) page for description of the
format), by default a medium is always active. You can also customise
severities for which the medium will be active, but leave all of them
enabled for now. Click *Add*, then click *Save* in the user properties.
The new user appears in the userlist.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/userlist2.png){width="600"}

By default, a new user has no permissions. To grant the user rights,
click on the group in **Groups** column. This opens the group properties
form. This user will have read-only access to Linux servers group, so
click on *Add* below the **Read only** listbox.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/add_permissions.png)

In this popup, mark the checkbox next to **Linux servers**, then click
*Select*.

![](../../../assets/en/manual/quickstart/group_properties.png){width="600"}

In the user group properties form, click *Save*.

::: notetip
In Zabbix, all access rights are assigned to user
groups.
:::

Done! You may try to log in using credentials of the new user.