From: frank@inua.be (Frank Lenaerts)
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] making yourself at home
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:50:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607215018.GA12430@mercurius.galaxy> (raw)
Hi,
After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user,
configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some
manpages, ... I have a few questions for which I didn't find an
answer. They seem stupid, so I might have missed some important
documentation. If so, just point me to the docs, if not, an
explanation is welcome;-)
Here are my questions:
- Living in Belgium, I copied /adm/timezone/CET to
/adm/timezone/local. However, time is still off by 2 hours. It seems
that the system is using GMT (normally, CET = GMT + 1; in summertime
(now), CET = GMT + 2). Is the CET file "wrong" or so?
- After creating a new user, the new user does not (yet) have a
password. Apparently, I cannot use auth/changeuser because I don't
have an auth server (the system is setup as a "terminal" whereas I
would normally consider it a "workstation") and passwd gives me
"protocol botch: cs: can't translate service".
- How do I logout to let another user login?
- Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another
window?
- How do I stop rio to get to textmode?
- Can I somehow lock the screen?
- I noticed that users glenda, adm and none don't have a password (by
default). These users can however change the timezone, reboot the
machine, ...
- What is the purpose of the different users like (a) glenda (seems to
be hostowner, can create users, etc.), (b) adm, (c) none?
[*] is part of the sys group but could not change /rc/bin/termrc
because he couldn't write to /tmp (no profile like a normal user
binding /tmp to /home/tmp; I suppose he can do this interactively)
- Is there something like virtual consoles to allow e.g. several
users to login simultaneously and each starting a graphical
environment?
- Is there something like a plain "mount" command, just to see all
bindings?
cu,
--
Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- frank@inua.be
next reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 21:50 Frank Lenaerts [this message]
2007-06-07 22:05 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-06-12 19:54 ` Frank Lenaerts
2007-06-13 8:54 ` Richard Miller
2007-06-07 22:09 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-12 20:12 ` Frank Lenaerts
2007-06-12 20:23 ` john
2007-06-12 20:33 ` lucio
2007-06-12 20:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-06-07 22:22 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-07 23:07 ` Federico Benavento
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