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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:49:01 -0600
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>,
	"Anthony Sorace" <a@9srv.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/lib/newuser patch
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Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> said:

> On a "real" plan 9 system, you create the user at the file server
> console, then log in as that user and run newuser. That first step
> creates /usr/$user. The analogue in 9vx is at least 'mkdir /usr/
> $user', and (less likely) possibly creating the actual user in the
> unix world, depending on your intended setup.
>
> Rather than see newuser create the dir if it doesn't exist, I'd rather
> see it exit with an error in that case.

and have the 9vx tutorial explain that the user needs to create the directory
by hand if the file serve console is not working.  OK, this works for me, and
concurs with what Erik was saying.

  EBo --