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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question: groups
Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 20:46:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f13ff6dc3217bf106beeb9ac44f1b277@mightycheese.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <808d37e3304c8e78a1b9446218d2997a@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> Actually we typically use the newuser command in fs(8)
> or the uname command in fossilcons(8), rather than
> edit /adm/users directly.

One important point is that the kernel knows nothing about this stuff.
If you wanted to provide an adminstrative interface to the file system
that doesn't involve typing on the console, go for it; it can all be done
in the file system itself.

-rob



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-04  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-03 22:00 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 22:23 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-04  4:46   ` rob pike, esq. [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-03 21:31 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 21:37 ` Russ Cox

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