On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Bob Savage wrote:

>Hi, all.
>
>I'm very new to this and having a raft of problems. First, I managed to set
>up a second account that can 'su' to root permissions -- sorta. I can
>switch (or whatever that does), but then I cannot (for example, shutdown
>(e.g. 'halt'); I need to login as root to do that, at which point I get
>this annoying message that I shouldn't be logging in as root. So my first
>question is, is it that bad to login as root if I am just doing it to
>shutdown the computer?

	No, it is not. It is bad to always login as root.

>
>Second, I can't figure out exactly how I am supposed to setup my 'user'
>account (the non-root account). Specifically, I don't have write
>permissions in my home directory (because it was created by root). I tried
>'chown' and that didn't seem to do it. I know this sounds pathetically
>stupid, but, hey! I warned you in the subject line :)

	Well.. if you place your user dirs into /usr/home as root:

# cd /usr/home
# chown username.group /usr/home/username

>
>Last, for now, I tried to change my default shell to tcsh by doing several
>things including alterring the password database ('chpass' or something),
>but it kept saying something like "non-standard shell" and rejecting my
>change (I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave). I altered the
>/etc/csh.login file so that it launches tcsh, but that actually adds a
>second level of shell so when I logout, I need to exit twice... suggestions?

	You need to add tcsh to /etc/shells

-- Yan

>
>Still it's fun to see NetBSD breathe new life into my old computer.
>
>TIA,
>
>Bob
>
>Bob Savage
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