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Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2006 18:18:55 +0100
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question
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Can there be a password challenge for a single machine (without any
auth server in the net)?

2006/2/6, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>:
>
> > When I tried to do
> >
> > auth/changeuser user1
> >
> > it requested passwords and other information.  After
> > that it returned me an error message (this might be
> > understandable, because I installed it on my laptop,
> > which is a standalone machine)...
>
> You don't need to run auth/changeuser for a single-machine
> installation.  Changeuser edits the authentication server
> database, but you have no authentication server yet.
>
> Russ
>