From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: <42DAAF20.1050102@moseslake-wa.com> References: <42DAA30C.9090800@moseslake-wa.com> <599f06db050717112651e57275@mail.gmail.com> <42DAAF20.1050102@moseslake-wa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:33:11 +0900 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6ab78f84-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Gorka guardiola wrote: >> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_a_new_user/ >> After, when you log in for the first time run >> /sys/lib/newuser >> look at the wiki (url above) for this kind of information. > I've already read through the wiki. I did run newuser after I manager > to login as my new user. However, I still cannot set any passwords, > so logging in is kinda insecure. > And why do you have to reboot in order to change users? UNIX has had > that from the beginning, and I don't see any reason to drop it. > Thanks > If you do want something like UNIX su command, try http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/netlib/cmd/su-1.4/ su is useful if you want instantaneously your user ID. Kenji Arisawa