From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] really basic (stupid) questions, re: beginning sys admin.
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:25:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f24d12d75e97e41d0c4a8c3e1e32f398@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453A6208.7090108@xmission.com>
> Q5) rebooting seems to be the main method to re-configure the system or
> ones access rights. In Un*x logging in/out and using su and
> kill/restart allowed one to choose the role and modify the system
> configuration without rebooting (I have a system running with uptime
> over 3 years). Is rebooting the method for performing these tasks? This
> seems rather draconian (imo).
Once you have an auth server running then you can always cpu(1) to a cpu
server as a different user. I have a single cpu/auth/file server which I often
drawterm to as myself and the cpu to it again in a window as bootes to do my
weekly pull from sources.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-21 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-21 18:08 Lloyd M Caldwell
2006-10-21 18:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-10-21 18:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-10-22 15:26 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-22 15:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-10-21 18:39 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-10-21 19:25 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2006-10-22 15:07 ` erik quanstrom
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