From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2006 12:00:55 -0500
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> 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