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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Just type passwd as root or as the user?  
> 
> Either.  
> george types:  passwd
> Root types:    passwd george


After root types passwd george does it ask whether to change the password?
How exactly would you specify the password while creating the account if 
you wanted the null password and the account was named jim? With useradd.
We tried all the permutations we could think of.

> > > ----------------------------
> > > chown -R george /home/george
> > > ----------------------------
> > 
> > /home/user/george?
> 
> /home/george

When we used adduser it put our jim account in /home/user/jim not in 
/home/jim so I cannot chown /home/jim

> 
> > No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> > Did we forget to do something else too?
> 
> /etc/passwd
> ----------------------------------------
> george::1000:100::/home/george:/bin/bash
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> > I went to our user account and typed 'lynx' and got unable 
> > to access document (hotlist.html).  
> 
> I assume hotlist.html is still in /root.  Natually users
> do not normally have access to root's home directory.
> 
> > DO we need to make copies of all the config files used by 
> > programs in the user directory, 
> 
> Not necessarily.  Config files used by everybody go in /etc 
> or  /usr/etc  or  /usr/X11/etc  or  /usr/share  or  ???
> Personal config files go in the home directory.

So do I copy the config files from kermit, lynx and links to /etc?
If we (root and user) are all using the same config files is there any 
need to have them in /root?  How do I know whether to put the config files 
in /etc or elsewhere?

> 
> > I think you said to dial as root and then go online as a 
> > user 
> 
> I dial as user (although it is a wee bit complicated to set 
> up).  I added ppp-on and ppp-off to my icewm menu, so it is
> click on, click off.  However, for the moment it will be 
> simpler for you to dial as root from a tty and then return 
> to X (where you browse from a user account).

I normally browse without X.  Opera is reserved for when I need 
javascript.

> Cheer
> Steven
>   
> 
> 
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