Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:41:53 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@rocket.Ngbert.org> To: Daniel Keller <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: new user questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961223133645.13160B-100000@rocket.Ngbert.org> In-Reply-To: <199612230713.XAA00056@psln1.psln.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Daniel Keller wrote: > I have a few other quetions if you could help me with them: > 1. How can I give a user certain or all root privilages, whenever I login > as root it says I should login as a user and su to root. But I would rather > have a user that has root privilages so I don't have to su all the time. there is a toor account, which is same as root. I like setting up special groups to do special tasks, like webteam, operator, etc. su'ing to root is a very good idea, iwo, logging in as root (or other equivalent users) is considered to be a bad practice. > 2. Once I create a user how do I delete him? well, I 'vipw', "dd" the row of that user, then 'vi' the other files like /etc/group, /etc/aliases, etc, and delete that username. use 'rm -R ~username' to remove his/her home directory. > 3. My backspace and delete keys a switched, is there and way I can change > this? try 'stty erase \^\H' or 'stty erase \^\?' // whichever is whichever is displayed with u press the backspace key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMr7SZp6qvWJYgw1hAQEBGgP/bgV3hA6/XgnRgCN3vEf4mOcjvGcdyQry WW/McWP15BuS2rZuPHk7bewuG0QyFpDPzuyUnM5gDhTSWa4A6vlYpGOk3WnWPLHv Vg/AbcOhAc+VExG9OLH/RTreeSFiEVZljQ943WIGckqz0aGPWUGLb/FpcO6VDi0H goKEnkoxPGY= =2Uma -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Andrew Y Ng <ayn@CMU.EDU> | Carnegie Mellon University http://andrew.Ngbert.org | ECE major, Music minor campus ph: 412/862-2836 | voice mail: 412/268-6700 x30027 | talk: finger ayn@andrew.Ngbert.org * NGBERT.ORG! * | for online status http://www.Ngbert.org | finger ayn@CMU.EDU for more info... --------------------------X------------------------------------- NetBSD FreeBSD Linux NeXT Be Solaris !windoze thought is no substitute for the real thing. -- Walt Kelly, "Putluck Pogo"
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