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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:22:36 +0100
From: "Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold@gmx.net>
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Subject: [9fans] create user with password
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Dear all,

I am a newbie and looking into
Plan 9 - now in earnest. I have
been considering it for the last
two years. (To make it short,
I'll have a lot of questions,
naturally, and I kindly ask you
to be patient with me...)

Firstly, I would like to have a
user. I don't like to be glenda,
actually, and I would like to
remove glenda alltogether. I have
found many different articles on
how to create a user, and
somehow now I have the user nino.

But I do not know how to set a
password for nino. The things with
auth/keyfs which I read somehow do
not work. So how can I have a
password? - I kindly ask you to
tell me the commands. Assume you
want to create a new user, what
would you type at the terminal? What
I did was this thing with
uname nino nino,
uname nino +sys and
uname nino +adm.

After nino has a passoword, I would
like to know two things: 1st: How do
you make a "normal" user? - I guess
I just have to omit the +sys and
+adm stuff above. 2nd: How do you
make a "superuser"? - Somehow the
system complained that nino has no
right to change /dev/key or
something thelike. Glenda could not
do it, either. Adm apparently did
not exist, I could not log him in
anyway.

I thank you in advance for your kind
help.

Kind regards,

Nino
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