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author | dteske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-10-26 03:20:04 +0000 |
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committer | dteske <dteske@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-10-26 03:20:04 +0000 |
commit | 61892356da30d8bdf25e50ff16889ec8a5e440df (patch) | |
tree | 4f69e0211620aa790fdcdafa4d0fa08ee071c9df /usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include | |
parent | d5d3fe3da52a9ce8154c8f8fc9d05b7bd99ab289 (diff) | |
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Resurrect and integrate stable/9/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/usermgmt.hlp
Approved by: adrian (co-mentor) (implicit)
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/usermgmt.hlp | 76 |
2 files changed, 77 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/Makefile b/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/Makefile index a026728..25d2a07 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/Makefile +++ b/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/Makefile @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ NO_OBJ= FILESDIR= ${LIBEXECDIR}/bsdconfig/070.usermgmt/include -FILES= messages.subr +FILES= messages.subr usermgmt.hlp beforeinstall: mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}${FILESDIR} diff --git a/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/usermgmt.hlp b/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/usermgmt.hlp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77be9bd --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/usermgmt/include/usermgmt.hlp @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +These screens allow you to add groups and users to your system. + +Many of the settings get reasonable defaults if you leave them blank. +The first time you have entered the name of the new group or user, the +system will show you what it would chose for most of these fields. +You are free to change them, of course. + + +User groups +=========== + +It's certainly almost generally a good idea to first create a new +group for your users. Common names for such a group are "users", or +even simply "other". Group names are used to control file access +permissions for users that belong to the same group. Several group +names are already used for system files. + +The numerical user or group IDs are often nothing you want to care for +explicitly. If you don't fill in these fields, the system will choose +reasonable defaults. However, these numbers (rather than the +associated names) are what the operating system actually uses to +distinguish users and groups -- hence they should normally be unique +to each person or group, respectively. + + +Users +===== + +The user's login ID is a short (up to 15 characters) alphanumeric ID +that the user must enter when logging into the system. It's often the +initial letters of the user's name, and commonly used in lower case. +It's also the local mail name for this user (though it's possible to +also set up more descriptive mail alias names later). + +The user's login group determines which group access rights the user +will initially get when logging in. If an additional list of groups is +provided which the user will become a member of, (s)he will also be +able to access files of those groups later without providing any +additional password etc. Except for the "wheel" case mentioned below, +the additional group membership list should normally not contain the +login group again. + +The user's password can also be set here, and should be chosen with +care - 6 or more characters, intermixing punctuation and numerics, and +*not* a word from the dictionary or related to the username is a good +password choice. + +Some of the system's groups have a special meaning. In particular, +members of group "wheel" are the only people who are later allowed to +become superuser using the command su(1). So if you're going to add a +new user who should later perform administrative tasks, don't forget +to add him to this group! (Well, ``he'' will most likely be yourself +in the very first place. :) + +Also, members of group "operator" will by default get permissions for +minor administrative operations, like performing system backups, or +shutting down the system -- without first becoming superuser! So, +take care when adding people to this group. + +The ``full name'' field serves as a comment only. It is also used by +mail front ends to determine the real name of the user, hence you +should actually fill in the first and last name of this user. By +convention, this field can be divided into comma-separated subfields, +where the office location, the work phone number, and the home phone +number follow the full name of the user. + +The home directory is the directory in the filesystem where the user +is being logged into, and where his personalized setup files (``dot +files'', since they usually begin with a `.' and are not displayed by +the ls(1) command by default) will be looked up. It is often created +under /usr/home/ or /home/. + +Finally, the shell is the user's initial command interpreter. The +default shell is /bin/sh, some users prefer the more historic +/bin/csh. Other, often more user-friendly and comfortable shells can +be found in the ports and packages collection. |