hola, I think most of your question has been already answered, but anyways
On 6/7/07, Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, After installing Plan 9 on a standalone machine, adding a user, configuring the network, wandering around a bit, reading some manpages, ... I have a few questions for which I didn't find an answer. They seem stupid, so I might have missed some important documentation. If so, just point me to the docs, if not, an explanation is welcome;-)
welcome to Plan 9!
- Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another window?
why do you want to be someone else? isn't good enough being yourself? ;)
- Can I somehow lock the screen?
the screen lock prg the guys mentioned is at /n/sources/patch/sorry/robs-bits/
- I noticed that users glenda, adm and none don't have a password (by default). These users can however change the timezone, reboot the machine, ...
password to access the machine you just booted? of course you can run rob's lock prg in your termrc, but what would be the point, stopping your children from playing with Plan 9?, but that could be a great learning experience for them :)
- What is the purpose of the different users like (a) glenda (seems to be hostowner, can create users, etc.), (b) adm, (c) none? [*] is part of the sys group but could not change /rc/bin/termrc because he couldn't write to /tmp (no profile like a normal user binding /tmp to /home/tmp; I suppose he can do this interactively)
you didn't run /sys/lib/newuser after you created your user, that's why you didn't get a $home/lib/profile that binds $home/tmp over /tmp
- Is there something like virtual consoles to allow e.g. several users to login simultaneously and each starting a graphical environment?
you'd better make your machine into a cpu/auth server or allow drawterming to it.
- Is there something like a plain "mount" command, just to see all bindings?
ns(1)
cu,
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