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[ILUG] RH 6.0 & user setup.

[ILUG] RH 6.0 & user setup.

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Fri Aug 6 09:23:16 IST 1999


"Boyle, Martin" wrote:
> 
> Question to anyone that may have used RedHat 6.0's setup options.
> 
> As people here say, "thou shalt not login as root to perform mundane tasks,
> like mail".
> If anyone has used the User setup option in RH 6.0, does it create a new
> user for you during the setup?
> And does it tell you to login with that account for normal work?
> 
> If not, well why not :-?
> 

Redhat never had the option to setup a normal user although Mandrake
added it to their setup which is nice. Hopefully RH will see the error
of their ways..

Donncha.




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