Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 03:53:02 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Daniel Keller <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new user questions Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961223034942.19092B-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <199612230713.XAA00056@psln1.psln.com>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Daniel Keller wrote: > I have a few other quetions if you could help me with them: > > 1. How can I give a user certain or all root privilages, whenever I login > as root it says I should login as a user and su to root. But I would rather > have a user that has root privilages so I don't have to su all the time. Install sudo from the ports or packages collection; man sudo and man sudoers. > 2. Once I create a user how do I delete him? 1) Using vipw, delete his line from the password file. 2) rm -r ~username. 3) rm /var/mail/username. 4) edit /etc/group and take out his group entry You're done. > 3. My backspace and delete keys a switched, is there and way I can change > this? man stty. Look especially uder "erase" (this is easiest if you use less as your pager, type / and then a string to search for that string, or ? and a string to search backwards). > ------------------------------ > dkeller@psln.com > ------------------------------ > > > Ben
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