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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie Login-questions Date: 5 Apr 1996 09:27:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4k2p1k$ok4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31642ec1.1541085@news.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 darus@xs4all.nl (douwe) writes: > But now I have the problem that I don't seem to be able to login in > the right kind of way... I Login as 'root' I give my password, BSD > welcomes me and asks me about a terminal type (???), and another user > name , and password , which I never installed. Huh? It asks for another user name? Or does it simply tell ``Don't login as root, use su.''? The latter refers to the fact that it's considered dangerous to work as root, so the normal way is to login as a regular user, and use su(8) in order to get root privileges temporarily. Run adduser(8), and don't forget to `invite' you into group ``wheel'' as well, you cannot `su' to root later if you aren't in this group. > Further questions are, where can I find a list of commands with the > description of what they do? I hope you've got the man pages installed? ``man <cmdname>''. Often abbreviated as ``RTFM'' :) (Read the f*ing manual) If you are curious about what all the commands in /usr/bin are for, simply type: cd /usr/bin; whatis * (This will give you more information than you're expecting however, since it matches the command names against the entire description lines of all man pages, so for example `apply' does appear in many man pages.) > How can I use my pcmcia-modem???... Refer to some other threads in this newsgroup, please. > I hope that someone will point me out to the address of a good faq > that covers these things (i found one faq on the www, which seemed to > be what I am looking for, but it comes down to me too flaky to be > usefull), or that someone can tell me how to login properly and how to > use some help file or so... The FAQ is also available locally under /usr/share/doc/FAQ, the handbook is /usr/share/doc/handbook. Both documents are available in ASCII and HTML. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)