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Any links to how I can add a non-root user and change the root password from
null?

I’m new to this… be gentle :slight_smile:

Thanks!

David J. Lowe <dave.lowe@gte.net> wrote:
: Any links to how I can add a non-root user and change the root password from
: null?

: I’m new to this… be gentle :slight_smile:

Log in as root and use the passwd command. It can change root’s password
and add new users. See the Utilities Reference.


Steve Reid stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems Ltd.

Maybe you can publish how to do this. I did read the utlitiles reference
for the
passwd command. It sure does add a user. But that’s just the start of the
battle :slight_smile:

  1. few, if any, of the photon apps run once you login as the new user.
    There
    clearly needs to be a bunch of files and subdirectories created in the new
    user’s
    home directory.

  2. things go really bad if you set the new user’s shell to anything but
    pterm (I tried
    bash2.04 downloaded from qnxstart.com).

  3. good luck reading news or e-mail. Got some missing subdirs in your
    homedir
    to figure out to create. You might get clever and look inside /root/.ph and
    /root/.photon.

  4. vmail puts up a dialog with a cryptic error message. Oops, that’s YOUR
    nntp
    server (news.qnx.com) configured in the e-mail program and the error message
    is
    the same one you get when you type “telnet news.qnx.com 119” from a unix
    command line. In other words, you have the wrong nntp server defaulted in
    vmail
    (maybe it should be inn.qnx.com instead?) or your admin needs to poke around
    news.qnx.com and fix the problem :slight_smile:




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“Steve Reid” <stever@qnx.com> wrote in message
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David J. Lowe <> dave.lowe@gte.net> > wrote:
: Any links to how I can add a non-root user and change the root password
from
: null?

: I’m new to this… be gentle > :slight_smile:

Log in as root and use the passwd command. It can change root’s password
and add new users. See the Utilities Reference.


Steve Reid > stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems Ltd.