From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 6:12:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D538637B403 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 06:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from own3d@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 15979 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jul 2001 13:12:08 -0000 Received: from dclient62-2-164-87.hispeed.ch (HELO loc) (62.2.164.87) by mail.gmx.net (mail07) with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 13:12:08 -0000 From: "locus" To: Subject: RE: usermod equivalent? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:17:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <3B5C18AB.9BE2CF9C@qbcon.com> 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 Hi Andreas, >Hi, >I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 >Now I need to add myself to the "wheel" group in order to be able to su >to root. > (I'm assuming it's "wheel" because that's what it is in NetBSD and >OpenBSD). [use 'vipw' to change your group. Just keep in mind that 'vipw' uses 'vi' by default, so you might want to set your EDITOR variable to another editor if your not familiar with 'vi'. You might want te check 'chpass' too.] >There doesn't seem to be a usermod (or useradd, userdel for that >matter), and /stand/sysinstall only allows you to add new users. [try rmuser (or vipw) to remove a user. adduser to add one. passwd to change someones password.] >Do I need to install an additional package, or should I just vi my >/etc/group? [No package is required.] >And how do I delete a user without "userdel -r"? [read above] >Another thing: I see the encrypted password is stored in /etc/passwd. >How do I enable shadow passwords? > (Does this have anything to do with my security level?) [Are you sure that /etc/passwd holds the encripted passwords and not /etc/master.passwd ?] >Thanks, >Andreas. [read http://freebsd.org/handbook] Bye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message