From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:25:17 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] really basic (stupid) questions, re: beginning sys admin. In-Reply-To: <453A6208.7090108@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0073b54-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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