From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:38:09 +0100
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] network PC boot
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>>setting up a pc as cpu and authentication server include instructions
>>for setting up users and passwords at the file server console, and it is

you do add file server users (and empty /usr directories with correct ownership)
at the file server console, but the password you set is for the file
server itself (the authentication domain name and its password),
not for users.

user authentication accounts are created initially on the console of a cpu server
acting as authentication server, including setting an initial password.
(after that, the user can change passwords using the passwd command.)
those accounts are effective on all machines in that authentication domain
(subject to /lib/ndb/auth).