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.) -- Jetzt 1 Monat kostenlos! GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a .

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