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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!night.primate.wisc.edu!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!umar From: umar@tiac.net (Rob Landry) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD --> Help for a stupid user Date: 20 Jan 1995 00:45:10 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3fn12m$g7d@sundog.tiac.net> References: <D2nt5M.5wn@pnfi.forestry.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: wb2avc.tiac.net Keywords: NetBSD, netbsd, help, X11, XFree86, logon, users borgan@alf.pnfi.forestry.ca (Bryan Organ) writes: > As another small, but annoying little development ... for some reason, I > can not seem to be able to add a $#@! user. Even several sys. admins here > have not been able to add a user. Am I missing something, or is it actually > harder than it looks . . . I'm running NetBSD on an old 386 beast. I can add users by logging in as root and running vipw. But I'm not at all sure I understand how NetBSD's security system works. I create a user using vipw, then create a home directory for him. He can't create files in his home directory, so I have to chmod 777 it. I've assigned him to group 0-- "wheel", yet he can't su root (it says he's not in the correct group to su root, although the man page for su says he is in the correct group). Furthermore, if I make a file for which his group has write privileges, he can't write to it until I chmod 777 it.