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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multi-User Mode? Date: 28 Sep 1996 18:18:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <52jq5l$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <51o6g9$3ch@ultra.sonic.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dougvo@sonic.net (Doug VanOmmeran) wrote: > I've just started playing with freeBSD on a standalone PC, but want > to have lots of people be able to log on, with me as administrator > (which I take is su or root). Right now it just boots as root and I > can go wild. How do I prompt for a login every time? Huh? The regular boot boots up into multi-user. Of course, the only existing user after installation is `root'. You need to add more of them. Perhaps get Greg Lehey's ``Installing and Running FreeBSD''. Walnut Creek CDROM sells it sepearately, or gives it along with all sold FreeBSD-release CDs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)