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Re: adding non-athena users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Sat Jan 27 02:53:12 1996
To: "Douglas S. J. De Couto" <decouto@bermuda.MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 1996 07:11:46 GMT."
<199601270711.HAA05423@bermuda.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 02:47:57 EST
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
okay, first-off, if you read the instructions completely, it
would have told you that you SHOULD NOT add non-athena users
using the adduser prorgam. That program specifically goes out and
creates an account for an athena user with that name, so you are
actively giving accounts to athena people you may not even know.
Now, to create a local account for a non-athena person, you should
use the
vipw
program, which lets you edit the master.passwd file and does all the
appropriate things after that. You might want to look at the manpage for
passwd:
man 5 passwd
which will exaplain what all the fields are. Add the account, set up
the homedir, and off you go.
after you do that, to set/change a password, you can, as root, run
/usr/bin/passwd {username}
to change {username}'s password on your machine.
-- yoav
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