Re: [9fans] create user with password

["Nino on NetBSD 4.0" <nbsdold@gmx.net>]

Dear Jonas,

Thank you very much for the link!
Looks promising indeed. I had some
weird problems with the key, and
you article obviously says that I
have to create it first...

Kind regards,

Nino

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:48:30 -0800
> Von: "Jonas Amoson" <jonas.amoson@home.se>
> An: 9fans@9fans.net
> Betreff: Re: [9fans] create user with password

> Hallo Nino!
>
> I am also a beginner to the system, and I have just
> recently started to use the system by logging in from
> a remote system. Here is what I have done so far.
>
> I have done a normal Plan9 installation, on which I
> can log in as any user. I have two users, 'glenda'
> with adm rights, and my own user 'jam' that I have
> added as you describe. If I log on directly on this
> machine, I am asked of no password.
>
> But instead of logging on to the machine directly,
> I connect to it using drawterm. I am then asked
> for a username and a password. the docment
> that made me succeed in setting this up is:
>
> http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/inde
> x.html
>
> Regards,
> Jonas
>
>
> <-----Ursprungligt Meddelande----->
>   From: Nino on NetBSD 4.0 [nbsdold@gmx.net]
> Sent: 17/2/2009 1:35:53 PM
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] create user with password
>
> Dear all,
>
> First of all, let me thank
> you for your kind attention.
>
> I did run newuser, in fact,
> that is what got me out of
> the console. I now have a
> graphical environment. Still,
> that did not give me a
> password.
>
> Rest assured, I am perfectly
> well aware that as soon as
> somone gets his hands on my
> machine, my data is basically
> his unless it is encrypted.
>
> But in the long term, the idea
> will be just this - my Plan9
> box shall be remotely accessible.
> (From Plan9, BSD, Linux and
> Windows, if possible.) Thus, I
> want to know how to get to a
> password. Like, say, in Linux you
> would say: passwd nino.
>
> So, basic question remains:
> What I would like to have
> is that user nino has a password
> and is the owner of the machine
> and everything. Let us say someone
> else, say, "puppet" shall be
> another user running as a non-
> administrating user. How exactly
> do I set this up? (At this stage,
> I just want to see what puppet can
> do and what puppet cannot do.)
>
> (I am reading the man pages, but
> I must say, at least personally,
> I find e.g. FreeBSD's man pages less
> confusing. Then again, Plan 9 is
> entirely new to me.)
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