Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:51:35 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: RGireyev@BellInd.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post installation stuff Message-ID: <33177D97.3EAA@u.washington.edu> References: <c=US%a=_%p=BellInd%l=CDCEXCHANGE-970301001109Z-8223@cdcexchange.bellind.com>
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RGireyev@BellInd.com wrote:
> I have been able to successfully install 2.1.7 on a
> 5x86 120, 16M RAM, 850HD. I tried using system
> commander but kept getting read error. Anyway, I ended
> up using the default MBR handler and it works just fine.
>
> Question 1: I would like to have my prompt (PS1)
> to always show me the directory path I'm in (pwd)
> In HP-UX land (Korn shell) it's PS1='$PWD'.
> Any suggestions.
Don't know this stuff yet. I only work in sh/bash.
> Question 2: After installing the system I created
> a user, me. And assigned him (me) to the group wheel.
Are you sure you assigned "me" to wheel? If you did you should be able
to su root. Read /etc/group to know for sure.
> But I cannot do su or shutdown, what would be a
Shutdown must be done as root. I think that the permissions for shutdown
are user only can execute. Sorry in windoze right now so I can't check.
> better group choice (bin comes to mind but I wanna
> be sure)
Don't use bin, operator etc. These are for program and daemons. Use
wheel for a user that you want to have super-user priveleges. Use a
group of your own creation for the other users. I use group "user"
myself. This is mostly my opinion and not necessarily fact based.
CYA
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