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Re: installing elm on my machine? adding nonathena user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 5 22:17:36 1996
To: Andrew J Kim <ajkim@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Apr 1996 20:35:46 EST."
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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 22:13:29 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 1) would it be possible to disable the mail system athena usually
> uses and install elm on my machine? And could i enable MH when i
> want to turn my computer off?
You'll probably need to learn some things about sendmail to do this;
we don't have a step-by-step process set up for it. You can get your
Athena mail forwarded to your mail with the "chpobox" command.
You can't easily arrange to "enable MH when i want to turn my computer
off."
> 2) how do i add a user to my system who does not have an athena
> account? I added the person with "vipw" but i don't know what else
> to do.
You'll need to set the user's password with "/usr/bin/passwd
<username>", and create the user's home directory:
mkdir /u1/username
chown username /u1/username
(I'm assuming /u1/username is the user's home directory; you can make
it whatever you want, but you should make sure there's enough disk
space there.)
