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* Mentioned /usr/home as a convention (/home is just mentioned)
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml
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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml,v 1.28 2001/08/22 05:37:50 murray Exp $
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml,v 1.29 2001/09/04 11:03:16 murray Exp $
-->
<chapter id="users">
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<title>Synopsis</title>
<para>FreeBSD allows multiple users to use the computer at the same time.
Obviously, only one of those users can be sat in front of the screen and
Obviously, only one of those users can be sitting in front of the screen and
keyboard at any one time
<footnote>
<para>Well, unless you hook up multiple terminals, but we'll
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<listitem>
<para>The UID is a number from 0 to 65536 used to uniquely identify
the user to the system. Internally FreeBSD uses the UID to
the user to the system. Internally, FreeBSD uses the UID to
identify users&mdash;any FreeBSD commands that allow you to
specify a user name will convert it to the UID before working with
it. This means that you can have several accounts with different
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creating accounts that you know have a limited lifespan, for
example, in a school where you have accounts for the students,
then you can specify when the account expires. After the expiry
time has elapsed the account can not be used to log in to the
time has elapsed the account cannot be used to log in to the
system, although the account's directories and files will
remain.</para>
</listitem>
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system in which the user will start when logging on to the
system. A common convention is to put all user home directories
under
<filename>/home/<replaceable>username</replaceable></filename>.
<filename>/home/<replaceable>username</replaceable></filename>
or <filename>/usr/home/<replaceable>username</replaceable></filename>.
The user would store their personal files in their home directory,
and any directories they may create in there.</para>
</listitem>
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mean irreparable data loss.</para>
<para>So, the first thing you should do after reading this
chapter, is to create an unprivileged user account for yourself
for general usage, if you have not already. This applies equally
chapter is to create an unprivileged user account for yourself
for general usage if you have not already. This applies equally
whether you are running a multi-user or single-user machine.
Later in this chapter, we discuss how to create additional
accounts, and how to change between the normal user and
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adding new users. It creates entries in the system
<filename>passwd</filename> and <filename>group</filename>
files. It will also create a home directory for the new user,
copy in the default configuration files ("dotfiles") from
copy in the default configuration files (<quote>dotfiles</quote>) from
<filename>/usr/share/skel</filename>, and can optionally mail
the new user a welcome message.</para>
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<command>ypchfn</command>, and
<command>ypchsh</command>. NIS support is automatic, so
specifying the <literal>yp</literal> before the command is
not necessary. If this is confusing to you, don't worry, NIS will
not necessary. If this is confusing to you, do not worry, NIS will
be covered in <xref linkend="advanced-networking"></para>
</note>
</sect2>
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pair, where <replaceable>name</replaceable> is a well-known
identifier and <replaceable>value</replaceable> is an arbitrary
string processed accordingly depending on the name. Setting up login
classes and capabilities is rather straight-forward, and is also
classes and capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also
described in &man.login.conf.5;.</para>
<para>Resource limits are different from plain vanilla login
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<para>This is the maximum amount a memory a process may have
requested to be locked into main memory (e.g., see
&man.mlock.2;). Some system-critical programs, such as
&man.amd.8;, do this so that their getting swapped out does not
contribute to a system's thrashing in time of trouble.</para>
&man.amd.8;, lock into main memory such that in the event
of being swapped out, they do not contribute to
a system's trashing in time of trouble.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>