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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question
Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2006 09:51:26 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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I enter "user1" as the username. But
> when I use this user, it does not get into the
> windowing environment. It displays a couple of error
> messages on the screen. The directory for the user
> is empty. And I can not run the /sys/lib/newuser
> on that terminal like screen.

that terminal is where you're supposed to run /sys/lib/newuser. do  
you get an error when you do that?

/sys/lib/newuser populates your directory creating bin/ lib/ and tmp/  
and copying a standard lib/profile in it. it is this file that sets  
up your environment.

if, for whatever reason you can't get /sys/lib/newuser to go, try  
this by hand:

mkdir /usr/user1/bin
mkdir /usr/user1/bin/386
mkdir /usr/user1/bin/rc
mkdir /usr/user1/lib
mkdir /usr/user1/tmp
cp /usr/glenda/lib/profile /usr/user1/lib/profile
cp /usr/glenda/bin/rc/* /usr/user1/bin/rc

that should give you the same start menu as glenda (without the first  
email she has).