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From: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com>
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Subject: new users and headaches
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:13:46 +0000
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hi,

after adding a new user I see that there is nothing in the new user's home
directory. So when I try starting X windows (as the new user) with startx/xinit
it says command not found (X already works as root).
Given that i have nothing in the new user's home directory does this probably
explain why I can't start X? I thought that using adduser automatically copied
over the basic, already installed utilities from root to the new user. But this
does not appear to be the case.
Why?
So do I now have to go about copying everything that i use in root to the new
user? This would include X, emacs, gcc etc in my case.
Also when i echo $PATH as this new user  i get /usr/bin:/bin. Does this also
explain things.

Thanks,
Ghulam

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