From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:17:38 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6cc856b4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > This does not give the new user ownership of your terminal's devices > so some some more fiddling is needed - E.G. you will need to start another > factotum and upas/fs. It does give you somthing like unix's su(1) command > but that is what you would use under *nix isn't it? There's already an su-like tool: auth/login (excercise for the reader: alter auth/login to allow the host owner to switch without providing a password). You can also switch users more violently with the cons filesystem (/dev/hostowner). > -Steve Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/