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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multi-User Mode?
Date: 28 Sep 1996 18:18:29 GMT
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dougvo@sonic.net (Doug VanOmmeran) wrote:

> I've just started playing with freeBSD on a standalone PC, but want
> to have lots of people be able to log on, with me as administrator
> (which I take is su or root).  Right now it just boots as root and I
> can go wild.  How do I prompt for a login every time?

Huh?  The regular boot boots up into multi-user.  Of course, the only
existing user after installation is `root'.  You need to add more of
them.

Perhaps get Greg Lehey's ``Installing and Running FreeBSD''.  Walnut
Creek CDROM sells it sepearately, or gives it along with all sold
FreeBSD-release CDs.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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