> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:09:10PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > - How do I logout to let another user login? >> >> reboot. > > Ok, but it just sounds strange for someone who has only been using > Unix-like systems for the last 10 years. >
It does sound strange, but as long as your terminals don't spend forever POSTing it can work okay. I seem to have the bad luck of only running Plan 9 on machines that apparently check RAM, check processor, check devices, and send out for pizza before they'll actually start *booting*. My old IBM cpu/auth/file machine was really bad this way. >> > - Is there something like "su" to let me be someone else in another >> > window? >> >> no. you can cpu as another user, but you have a terminal, not a cpu server. >> you can't cpu to a terminal. > > Ok, so a terminal is really a single-user "terminal", unlike a > "workstation". > >> > - Can I somehow lock the screen? >> >> reboot. ;-) > > Hmmm, ... I'm used to say that a machine should only be powered on > once and that you should login only once ... so rebooting is not an > option. > Again, like everyone says, you really can't use Plan 9 properly unless you've got at least a cpu/auth/file server and one terminal. This is kind of an annoyance for us hobbyists, but I guess it's just a side affect of building a system with Plan 9's capabilities. Good luck, have fun, and don't let the trolls bite John Floren (now back to scheming about getting some terminals for the Plan 9 server)
