[m-dev.] for review: add a new user to the mercury project
Peter Ross
petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Dec 24 15:21:54 AEDT 1999
Hi,
Feel free to suggest anything I missed.
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What needs to be done when a new user is added to the mercury
project.
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+<html>
+
+<head>
+<title>Adding a new user.</title>
+</head>
+
+<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" >
+<h1>Adding a new user.</h1>
+
+hydra is our master NIS server, with ender being our secondary slave
+server, for more details on how NIS was setup, see the file
+<A HREF="http://hydra.cs.mu.oz.au/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz">
+nis.debian.howto</A> in
+<A HREF="http://hydra.cs.mu.oz.au/doc/nis">/usr/doc/nis</A> on hydra.
+
+<P>
+
+Get the new users /etc/passwd entry from mundook and then add it to /etc/passwd
+on hydra (using vipw to be safe).
+
+<P>
+
+Add the new user to group mercury in /etc/group on hydra (using vigr to
+be safe).
+
+<P>
+
+Then execute the following commands as root on hydra to
+update the NIS database.
+
+<P>
+cd /var/yp<BR>
+make<BR>
+
+<P>
+
+Now add a directory on all the /home file systems that we have access
+to.
+
+<P>
+
+Last update was $Date$ by $Author$@cs.mu.oz.au.
+</body>
+
+</html>
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<a href="doc/bootstrapping.html">HTML</a>
<p>
+<li> <strong>HOWTO add a new user.</strong> <br>
+ Information on what needs to be done when a new person joins the
+ mercury project. <p>
+
+ Available in
+ <a href="developers/add_new_user.html">HTML</a>
+ <p>
+
<!---------
%% Take this out of comments when the bytecode docs have settled down a bit.
<li> <strong>Bytecode</strong> <br>
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Peter Ross
PhD Student University of Melbourne
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~petdr/
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