From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 6:35:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8850737B41F for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020404143534.YSUL18078.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@max> for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:35:34 +0000 Message-ID: <200204040935380337.02E23686@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:35:38 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some newbie questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 2.why dosent the the tab (for command completion ) >> work for normal users.i have the user in the wheel >> group. >Putting users in the wheel group allows them to su to root - probably not >what you're looking for. I think the default user shell in BSD is /bin/sh It is odd, isn't it, that so many people think that adding the user to the wheel group somehow will turn on TAB completion. This is the second person in the last couple of days that both had this problem and tried to solve it by adding the user to the wheel group. Where did this bit of (false) legend start, I wonder? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message