Re: picobsd on cdrom

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Morel <morel@acadia.net>
Date
24 Oct 2000 09:18:29
Subject
Re: picobsd on cdrom
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39F56A54.75F327FD@acadia.net

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> > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:40:00AM +0000, Morel wrote:
> > > > Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks a lot! This really helped. I have one small question though. How
> > > do I add a user/password and change the root password?
> > >
> > Hi Gunnar,
> > After logging in as root, use the passwd command to change the root
> > password then use the update command to write the new password file back
> > to the floppy. Update also writes back files in /etc,...........
>
> Yah, figured that one out myself, but the problem actually was that
> there's not enough space on the floppy to save the changes. So I'll have
> to figure out something else. Thanks anyway!

Hi Gunnar,

You're probably right. A big password file would probably take up most
of the floppy and running multi-user would start needing more RAM. At
what point is it cheaper and easier to use a hard drive? Anyway, a
floppy based PicoBSD is more suited for routers and such. By the way, in
case anyone is interested, there is an unpriviledged user password and
directory allready set up by Abial. Look at /etc/master.passwd file. To
change the password for "user", log in as root an do passwd user. Yo
will get a propt for the new password...You could also hack more users
using the "user" entry as a template, changing the parameters to suit
your application.....



> > > > Norm Audet
> > > >
> > > > support@thinserver.net

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