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Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2007 00:05:49 +0200
From: "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@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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hello

i tried to answer your questions one by one, but will choose to do it
the short way:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/

take a look to this man pages too:
ns(1)
bind(1)
timesync(8)

that will explain your security and multi-user questions, the mount
question and may be fixes your time problems.

slds

gabi


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;-)
>




> Here are my questions:
>
> - Living in Belgium, I copied /adm/timezone/CET to
>   /adm/timezone/local. However, time is still off by 2 hours. It seems
>   that the system is using GMT (normally, CET = GMT + 1; in summertime
>   (now), CET = GMT + 2). Is the CET file "wrong" or so?
>
> - After creating a new user, the new user does not (yet) have a
>   password. Apparently, I cannot use auth/changeuser because I don't
>   have an auth server (the system is setup as a "terminal" whereas I
>   would normally consider it a "workstation") and passwd gives me
>   "protocol botch: cs: can't translate service".
>
> - How do I logout to let another user login?
>
> - Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another
>   window?
>
> - How do I stop rio to get to textmode?
>
> - Can I somehow lock the screen?
>
> - 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, ...
>
> - 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)
>
> - Is there something like virtual consoles to allow e.g.  several
>   users to login simultaneously and each starting a graphical
>   environment?
>
> - Is there something like a plain "mount" command, just to see all
>   bindings?
>
>
> cu,
>
> --
> Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- frank@inua.be
>
>