[rescue] Silly NetBSD question

[Rebecca Ore]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:17AM -0500, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> > Edit /etc/group and add yourself to wheel.
> 
> OK.  So I have:
> wheel:*:0:root, joshua
> 
> Still no go.
> So, I tried:
> wheel:*:0:root;joshua
> and again no go.  

My entry looks like 

wheel:*:0:root,rebecca,news

Is the space in the first entry in the /etc/group file?


> 
> Also, someone pointed me to a nice document introducing NetBSD to new users, 
> but for adding users, the doc says to just man adduser, which is less than
> helpfull since somehow between the sun and minicom, the formatting codes are
> getting borked making man and related systems virtually useless.  Of programs
> that try to use text formatting, only vi seems to work correctly.  Blech.  
> 
> I think I might have telnet working (I tried to telnet into the machine, and
> it didn't refuse the connection, but a minute later I still have no login
> prompt.  But maybe it is just slow.  My old lintel 486 used to do the same 
> thing.).  That should fix the useless man problem.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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