From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by 10.236.105.143 with SMTP id k15cs204884yhg; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <9front+bncCMvXr9jtDBDnjqDxBBoE-DxMKg@googlegroups.com> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCMvXr9jtDBDnjqDxBBoE-DxMKg@googlegroups.com designates 10.101.195.25 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.101.195.25; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of 9front+bncCMvXr9jtDBDnjqDxBBoE-DxMKg@googlegroups.com designates 10.101.195.25 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=9front+bncCMvXr9jtDBDnjqDxBBoE-DxMKg@googlegroups.com; dkim=pass header.i=9front+bncCMvXr9jtDBDnjqDxBBoE-DxMKg@googlegroups.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.101.195.25]) by 10.101.195.25 with SMTP id x25mr32774anp.36.1311246188151 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:x-google-group-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=DIR52X2ZflXoS/XKD6FrrIIIkY4OQuuhKMAT0lWjn6A=; b=Bgq3HsF8llzBn+RWgeTMLtNEnC1Q3rpt1bmObvkmtMmRjJHOhQkQsj/B/wc75MVUUA bWtKbERUpqD4ykFb+3yICPNRIdedIr/Eg4x76yq/eP485mjPs0n+/ivUg8fdmfJYN77S UpIQEdKQYs18MO8uS/KcsGolMijDVQPF2i4t8= Received: by 10.101.195.25 with SMTP id x25mr9938anp.36.1311246183390; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:03 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: 9front@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.155.26 with SMTP id h26ls815686ano.0.gmail; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.168.22 with SMTP id v22mr9328ano.34.1311246183094; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by d32g2000yqa.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <6a17fa7ee47c2117d70bcc6f409fe63c@gmx.de> <6a9f9e5b-3d64-41ee-926f-f8924ec528a5@q5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem during install From: neo67 To: 9front <9front@googlegroups.com> X-Original-Sender: i.am.neo67@googlemail.com Reply-To: 9front@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list 9front@googlegroups.com; contact 9front+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: <9front.googlegroups.com> X-Google-Group-Id: 831096995978 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: 9front@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 21 Jul., 10:34, Julius Schmidt wrote: > > What is for 9front the difference between a terminal and a cpu > > installation (this s asked during installation) > > A (standalone) terminal is just a single standalone machine. > A CPU server is a machine where users log in and work on. > Read /sys/doc/9.ps ;) okay, a CPU Server is with login prompt and a terminal has autologin. How can I read postscript files? I dont find a command for that. > > > After install and a new boot, I can only log in as Glenda? Is Glenda > > root? > > Yes, you can only log in as Glenda. > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/admin for creating more > users. short ! :-) > > No, Glenda is not root, the concept of a superuser is foreign to Plan 9. > All direct hardware access is restricted to the so-called hostowner. > On terminals the hostowner is whoever logged in. > On CPU servers the hostowner is specified as a configuration option, the > default is glenda. > There are two groups, sys and adm, which define users with elevated > privileges. > Users in sys may change system files and users in adm may change > authentication data. > (This is just because sys is the group of all system files and adm is > the group of /adm) many Thanks for teh explanation about the user concept. the fog clears itself :) THX Juergen