On 08/10/2012 07:00 PM, sam walton wrote:
Man, I feel like a baby asking this. Normally I would find an answer easily on the Googles, but this one eludes me. I'm trying out Centos 6.3 as a webserver so I'm starting out with the minimal install and building it up into a Rails server. I believe the only user is root and I'm logged in, but I'm sure there is a utility in the CLI to create a new user and endow it with the right admin privileges.
Sam, that is why we are here. You've seen and endless trail of basic questions coming from me so I don't mind if I may return the favor.
I do appreciate Curt's "old style" way of adding a user. Good to go back to fundamentals now and then.
Yes there are two CLI commands: adduser and useradd (go figure). Useradd works for me. Agree with Curt that adduser has quirks.
All I'm seeing is something to install some OpenVZ whatever that is. I'm trying to get more comfortable with the CLI, eschewing the GUI. In normal UNIX it's preferable to deactivate the root user, opting for sudo once that new user is large and in charge.
OpenVZ is another virtualization environment. I've seen it whilst googling for other things
Would that be good practice for a Rails server? I want to understand what all is needed before I try something like Puppet or another utility to automate server setup. What's a good up-to-date resource for server setup on Centos?, sam
No help there. I'm going to get a baptism by fire on RoR soon enough. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
