From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 00:53:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA25204 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:53:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA25199 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id DAA20970; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 03:53:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 03:53:02 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Daniel Keller cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: new user questions In-Reply-To: <199612230713.XAA00056@psln1.psln.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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