From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:20:22 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: <42DAAF20.1050102@moseslake-wa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42DAA30C.9090800@moseslake-wa.com> <599f06db050717112651e57275@mail.gmail.com> <42DAAF20.1050102@moseslake-wa.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 68fb1aa8-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. You're not using the system the way it was intended. In a full-blown Plan 9 setup there is a file server and a cpu server, and users each sit at their own terminals. To change users, you reboot the terminal, but any long-running stuff on the cpu server doesn't go away just because one terminal rebooted. Rebooting has been easy enough, so we haven't bothered to put more complexity into the system to make changing users easier. Russ