From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 5:40:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8230014C82 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 05:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13074; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:36:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA00693; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:36:38 +0100 (MET) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA07326; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:36:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990307143637.C7273@sr.se> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 14:36:37 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: kita@bellatlantic.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: adding users Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <36E27841.90752657@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36E27841.90752657@bellatlantic.net>; from kita jackson on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 07:59:45AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 07:59:45AM -0500, 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. What do you mean with 'why they would not....' Do you mean that filling in things in these fields won't allow people to log in? ?? Que? You give a person a login name ie 'login id', you give the person an unique (to the system) user id 'uid', you assign a group to the user (could be users, if that one is defined in the /etc/groups file) The full name is ... Ahh you guessed it, the persons full name. member groups is any additional groups that the user should be in, and the login shell is the shell the user will be using when logged into the system. And of course this shell has to be defined in /etc/shells file. If you've managed to use these fields the way I described it, it certainly won't be the reason why they're disaloowed login. > 2. How exactly do you eliminate using root as the log in? You create a user for yourself, that is in the group wheel. This will make it possible for you to su to root instead od directly logging in as root. This will also make you get used to not using root for other purposes tha absolutely needed. Don't delete root or rename him/her, but be sure to have a password for root! -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message