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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: How to create a user and other questions!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.042925.26716@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 04:29:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.190925.24670@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
- >
- >Hi y'all,
- >
- >OK, I have SLS 0.96 up and running smoothly.
-
- In SLS's original announcement, I admitted that the structure needed tightening,
- primarily file permissions. What I would like to see is a shell script that
- could be run to set file ownerships and permissions on common parts of the
- system. Or perhaps it would just check them and notify of any aberations.
- My problem is that I always run as root :~).
-
- >
- >--- How do I create a user?
-
- edit /etc/passwd or use adduser
-
- >
- >---When I log in as user1, the system will not let me set a passwd. How
- > do I get around this. It says that it could not read the passwd
- > file. I know I have to do something with chown, but what?
- >
-
- chmod u+s /bin/passwd
-
- >--- As user1, I cannot run any programs - eg kermit.
- >
-
- chmod ugo+rw /dev/ttys?
-
- >--- When I try to use emacs, it says that it cannot find some 'X' library.
- > Since my current Video card is NOT supported by Linux, I have not
- > installed X yet. Is there a work around for this?
-
- unset DISPLAY
-
- >--- WHere do I get mtools - so I can read/writye MS-DOS Floppy disks.
- > Were these included in the SLS Dist.? If so where?
- >
-
- /usr/local/bin/
-
- >That's all, for now (=>). I would appreciate any help on this.
- >
- >Finally,
- > I would like to know who to contact about documentation for Linux.
- > I am interested in working on the docs.
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >Divya
- >(sundaram@cps.msu.edu)
-
-
- Also, to fix the mail problem for non-root users:
-
- chmod ugo+rwxt /usr/spool/mail
-
-