On Sun Aug 13 2000 at 06:59:10 +0500, faisal wrote:

> i am new to netbsd can anyone tell me how to make a new user in netbsd

Either use vipw and create the necessary stuff by hand, use a pkgsrc
program called addnerd, or if you are running -current or 1.5 alpha you
can try a program called useradd.

> when i assingh ip address with the ifconfig command it does stays permenent
> i have to re give it after a reboot

You have to configure the interface after each reboot. Check out
auto_ifconfig and net_interfaces from /etc/rc.conf and
/etc/ifconfig.interface.

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                    Of course he runs NetBSD.