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From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Simple System Question
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Date: 18 Dec 90 03:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!beaucham    Dec 17 21:43:00 1990


I just got my '30 Promotion' cube, and I want to set it up as a multi-user
system.  I find that after building my 660 MB HD that about 2/3 of it is
mounted on '/' and the rest is mounted on '/clients'.  I installed a user
account using the NeXT built in application and tried to force to put the
home directory under '/u1' (after I did a mkdir to create /u1.).  However,
the system insists on putting the user area directly under root.  Login works 
o.k., but I don't understand why the user account is not given in /etc/passwd.

In summary, my questions are:

1) What is the '/clients' directory system supposed to be used for?

2) How do you install a user area other than right under root?

3) Why don't new users have their names listed in /etc/passwd?

Since NeXT has no hot line, I have to ask you guys!

Jim Beauchamp	j-beauchamp@uiuc.edu