From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 5:29:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D73514CCD for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 05:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port10.annex8.radix.net (port10.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.10]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00766; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:27:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:27:12 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: kita jackson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding users In-Reply-To: <36E27841.90752657@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Man pages should help, try: man pw and man adduser that should get you started at least. Root is determined by uid 0. Whatever has uid 0 is "root". Beware, some programs require uid 0 have the username 'root'. You can have multiple users with uid 0, but the same rule applies. ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, kita jackson wrote: > 1. I was attempting to add users via the post-install config, but the > users never could log in? > The screen fields were: > login id, uid, group, full name, member group, and so on. > could you explain these functions and why they would not allow the users > to log in. > 2. How exactly do you eliminate using root as the log in? > Again I attempted to change this practice but onbly suceeded in changing > the login passwd for root but not root. Or can you change the namr for > root? > > Thanks for any assistance here, > Davidj > P.S. > rookie sys Admin. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message