From: Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:03:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwHSOtLZcqHqpKy8st04FnV2Qxen6Y8B+UMAtJyjyA+Gv-TgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABwHSOtvSKs0hQwK-jZJEan3HMGMSkcFSjzoFxiie_EKaHFavA@mail.gmail.com>
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Or perhaps:
echo newuser USER-NAME >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
replace USER-NAME with the new user's name. If most commands are in
lowercase, it might make sense to use uppercase names as things that need
to be specified.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
> It works now. The docs were unclear to me. For example, this works:
>
> echo newuser george >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> And this does not work (unsupprisingly):
>
> echo george george >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> Unless you really look at it, it is unclear when to make a substitution
> (or fill in a variable), and when to type it literally. Perhaps the docs
> should say:
>
> echo newuser <username> >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> where <username> is the name of the new user (without the <>).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you append or truncate. That command should work.
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/23 Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello !
>>>> From - https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/admin
>>>> Adding Users
>>>>
>>>> Add a new user on the file server:
>>>>
>>>> echo newuser username >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>>>>
>>>> The newuser filesystem command is described in the fs(8)<http://man.aiju.de/8/fs>
>>>> manpage. Examine the '/adm/users' file to investigate the results.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The above echo command did nothing to the /adm/users file for me on
>>> vanilla 9front.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-23 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-23 2:37 Blake McBride
2013-12-23 5:19 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2013-12-23 6:15 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-23 13:34 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 13:46 ` Richard Miller
2013-12-23 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 14:36 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 15:10 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 15:32 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-23 17:13 ` sl
2013-12-23 18:00 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 18:03 ` Blake McBride [this message]
2013-12-23 18:28 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-23 20:03 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 20:18 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 20:23 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-23 20:48 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 21:20 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-23 20:51 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-23 21:45 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-23 22:00 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-23 22:07 ` sl
2013-12-23 22:45 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 23:47 ` sl
2013-12-23 23:54 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-24 12:06 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2013-12-24 12:24 ` lucio
2013-12-24 17:47 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2013-12-25 5:30 ` lucio
2013-12-25 5:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2013-12-24 0:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-24 0:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-24 2:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-24 3:03 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-23 19:18 ` Richard Miller
2013-12-23 19:30 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-23 19:37 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 20:29 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-23 15:42 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-23 9:38 ` Richard Miller
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