In article <Springmail.105.964210467.0.10524100@www.springmail.com> you wrote:
>      What would be the best way to set up 
> user accounts in Netbsd. 

In 1.5, 'useradd -m mylogin'.
For 1.4.x systems, there is a package for useradd, it's in
pkgsrc/sysutils/user.


> I'm coming from 
> FreeBSD, and that process is very different.
> I have set up a user account using VIPW as
> instructed but what are some good permissions
> to set so that user can use this home directory
> (read, write, and execute from it), and other
> users can't.  Thanks in advance.

Well, sounds like you'd want to 'chmod 700' that dir, or use
'chmod u+rwx,go-rwx', which is equivalent. See 'man chmod'.


 - Hubert

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