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Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2007 01:07:02 +0200
From: "Federico Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] making yourself at home
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hola,

I think most of your question has been already answered, but anyways

On 6/7/07, Frank Lenaerts <frank@inua.be> wrote:
> 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;-)
>

welcome to Plan 9!


> - Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another
>   window?
>
why do you want to be someone else? isn't good enough being yourself? ;)

> - Can I somehow lock the screen?
>

the screen lock prg the guys mentioned is at /n/sources/patch/sorry/robs-bits/

> - 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, ...
>
password to access the machine you just booted?
of course you can run rob's lock prg in your termrc, but what would be
the point,
stopping your children from playing with Plan 9?, but that could be a great
learning experience for them :)

> - 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)
>

you didn't run /sys/lib/newuser after you created your user, that's why
you didn't get a $home/lib/profile that binds $home/tmp over /tmp


> - Is there something like virtual consoles to allow e.g.  several
>   users to login simultaneously and each starting a graphical
>   environment?
>
you'd better make your machine into a cpu/auth server or allow drawterming
to it.

> - Is there something like a plain "mount" command, just to see all
>   bindings?
>
ns(1)

>
> cu,

cu == means "butt" in some weird latin language

have a good day

--
Federico G. Benavento