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From: bmarcum@iglou.iglou.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: How can I add users?
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Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 12:04:31 GMT
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In article <4mbt08$b28@news.usit.net>,
Cybertech Writers  <docwho@usit.net> wrote:
>I have MacMINIX 1.5.10.7 installed, and I tried to add a user to my 
>system by coppying a line of the password file, changing the name and 
>default directory of the user, and then logging on a second time as that 
>user to change the password. However, once I unbooted and rebooted, the 
>user disappeared. And although the login name was different, the user's 
>file's were still registered as owned by the user who'se account the new 
>account was based on.
>
>MY QUESTION: Is there any correct and reliable way to add accounts that 
>won't just be alternate logins for old accounts, and that won't be 
>erased when you reboot?
>
In addition to changing the user name and home directory, you also need to 
change the user ID number (the third field in the passwd line).  Are you 
using a ramdisk as the root file system?
-- 
Bill Marcum              bmarcum@iglou.com
"Even the samurais have teddy bears, and even the teddy bears get drunk"
(don't ask me what it means, it came from the 'fortune' program).
