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From: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu (David A. Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NEWBIE: I just installed FreeBSD 2.1.6, need help
Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:54:20 -0500
Organization: Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), Univ of Maryland, College Park
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Hi!
  I received my FreeBSD 2.1.6 from Walnut Creek today and bought a
Cyrix P166+ system, installed everything, and am up and running! Here
are some questions I have:

Is there a tutorial for running ppp to an ISP which gives dynamic IP
assignments via ppp? I've never used ppp before and am very confused.
(I just used "ppp" and "term" to access the modem - so I'm sure the
hardware is configured properly - and the modem is in COM2)

Also, when I made myself a user, I forgot to add group 0 to me so I
could 'su root' later... How do I add a group to a user?

Thanks!
 david

David A. Bader, Ph.D.                           Office: 301-405-6755   
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