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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:29:49 +0200
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From: yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie boot question
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2010/10/11 freeasinfreedom <faifgnu@gmail.com>:
> I don't have the privileges to add a new user with /sys/lib/newuser
> when I log in as `none'. Also, I cannot edit edit /usr/glenda/lib/
> profile to stop starting rio automatically until the time I'll fix the
> vga problem. Any workarounds?
>

You can tell Plan 9 to not start the profile from the plan9.ini file
using the init variable, eg:

init=/386/init -m

will take you to a rc prompt. Once you are in rc you will probably want to run

. /rc/bin/termrc; home=/usr/$user

to have the same environment you have before running lib/profile.

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