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Subject: Re: keyboard mapping(I think)
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Totally fixed me up! Thanks so much!!!!!


On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 22:46, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On 01 Apr 2002 22:39:27 -0800
> Unix Newbie <unix_newbie@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >   Hi! 
> > 
> >     I believe these to be some really newbie questions to FreeBSD. I
> > just installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my system and I am having some trouble
> > figuring out keyboard mapping. With the root user the keyboard mapping
> > is perfect, when I hit tab it will auto fill the names, and if I hit
> > the up arrow it takes me to the last command, etc. Well, with any
> > other user on my system I can't seem to do that. If I hit tab it thows
> > out some wierd characters to the screen. 
> > 
> > I did a quick man -k search for keyboard stuff, and I tried to use the
> > commands listed, but I think I am doing something wrong. Is keyboard
> > mapping even when I should be looking?I'll take anything, urls, docs,
> > I just appreciate the help! 
> > 
> >
> 
> No, it's the shell that the user is using
> In other words, I think root is csh while the other users, unless you
> specified otherwise, are just using /bin/sh which, IIRC, doesn't support
> expansion You can add a user to wheel by editing /etc/group
> You can change the shell with 
> chsh <user name>
> HTH
> Scott
> Hope I'm right, too--it's really late here  :)



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