Subject: Re: questions re. install
To: Ian Medland <Ian.Medland@parkplatz.demon.co.uk>
From: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/20/1998 05:27:17
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ian Medland wrote:
>Coming from a system that uses passwd or yellow pages for passwords I
>found the plethora of password related files in /etc a bit confusing. So
>a simple question "how do I add a new user". I tried adduser but it did
>not seem to be installed - should it be?
You need use ``vipw" to edit the passwd database. It will check
the new entry for you. Then, you need to add a group entry in
/etc/group. For the new user, you need to create a home directory
for him, and change owner to him.
>Trying to get X up and running it doesn't know which server to use. To
>which file should I make 'X' link?
I installed thru miniroot, and my server is set to Xsun. It is a
sparc 2.
Regards
Ruibiao
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