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Re: documentation anywhere?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek W Truesdale)
Mon Oct 23 02:49:05 1995
From: Derek W Truesdale <derekt@MIT.EDU>
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 1995 01:26:55 EDT."
<199510230526.BAA00283@i-see-everything-twice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 02:48:43 EDT
thankyou for your help.
I guess it makes sense that root can change the password without
prompting for the old one, because otherwise you'd be screwed if you
forgot the root password.
thanks for telling me about vipw; it would have taken a long time to
find. Although, I guess the name makes sense in retrospect (like a
lot of unix commands) (It helped that I when I did it without
setenving my eidtor, it went to vi)
I guess the command I wasn't doing before, though, is pwd_mkdb.
What I wanted was for people to be able to log in with a choice of
their home dir being on my machine or on athena.
but it didn't work too well.
I tried adding
derek::10:101:....
to my master.passwd. that worked fine, I was able to log in as derek
without a password.
then I changed my password (using /usr/bin/passwd)
Then I couldn't log in as derek any more, because there's somebody
else (Derek Chiou) who owns the athena user name derek, and it
apparently looks for the athena password before the local password.
but, it checks to see if the local password is blank before looking at
the athena password. weird.
anyway, I'm now dt on my machine, and it works fine. but I'd rather
be derek. :-)
next questions:
is there a way to make the default X stuff not have a virtual desktop?
(I run vtwm and it's annoying to have vtwm think of there being a
virtual desktop inside a vitrual desktop)
and speaking of vtwm.gamma:
any ideas why
Function "killoclock" {f.warpto "oclock" f.destroy}
doesn't work?
f.warpto "oclock" works, f.destroy works, and
Function "topleft" {f.panup "300" f.panleft "300"} works.
(the above command worked at one point in time when I was using
vtwm...but perhaps this is a better question for a different list)
thanks for your help,
Derek.
