On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ian Medland wrote:

>Coming from a system that uses passwd or yellow pages for passwords I
>found the plethora of password related files in /etc a bit confusing. So
>a simple question "how do I add a new user". I tried adduser but it did
>not seem to be installed - should it be?

You need use ``vipw" to edit the passwd database.  It will check
the new entry for you.  Then, you need to add a group entry in
/etc/group.  For the new user, you need to create a home directory
for him, and change owner to him.

>Trying to get X up and running it doesn't know which server to use. To
>which file should I make 'X' link?

I installed thru miniroot, and my server is set to Xsun.  It is a
sparc 2.

          Regards

            Ruibiao

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