From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <42DAAF20.1050102@moseslake-wa.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:18:56 -0700 From: John Floren User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gorka guardiola , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help References: <42DAA30C.9090800@moseslake-wa.com> <599f06db050717112651e57275@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <599f06db050717112651e57275@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 68e3c84e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Gorka guardiola wrote: > http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_a_new_user/ > > After, when you log in for the first time run > /sys/lib/newuser > > look at the wiki (url above) for this kind of information. I've already read through the wiki. I did run newuser after I manager to login as my new user. However, I still cannot set any passwords, so logging in is kinda insecure. And why do you have to reboot in order to change users? UNIX has had that from the beginning, and I don't see any reason to drop it. Thanks > On 7/17/05, John Floren wrote: > >>Hi. >>I just installed Plan 9 on an old machine, and I'm having a bit of >>trouble. I am used to Linux, so any comparisons you might make to Linux >>should make sense to me. >>First, I installed Plan 9 from CD with the fossil file system. It >>installed just fine; when I rebooted, I chose to login as "glenda" and >>came up with a nice screen. Now I want to add some other users, but I >>haven't had much luck. I tried "con /srv/fscons" and then typing "uname >>john john", then quitting. I then ran "auth/changeuser john" and tried >>to set my password, but I got a "permission denied" error. Help? >>I am also a bit confused about how to login/logout. Do you have to >>reboot every time you want to change users? >>Thanks >> >>John F. >>-- >>http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster >>Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio. >> > > > -- http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster He's a about half the size of the others. But he's got a chainsaw.