From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 6:52:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD00F37B419 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:52:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:52:07 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16t8Yc-00074z-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:49:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:49:46 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some newbie questions In-Reply-To: <200204040935380337.02E23686@mail.attbi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >> 2.why dosent the the tab (for command completion ) > >> work for normal users.i have the user in the wheel > >> group. > >Putting users in the wheel group allows them to su to root - probably not > >what you're looking for. I think the default user shell in BSD is /bin/sh > > It is odd, isn't it, that so many people think that adding the user to > the wheel group somehow will turn on TAB completion. This is the second > person in the last couple of days that both had this problem and tried > to solve it by adding the user to the wheel group. Where did this bit > of (false) legend start, I wonder? Googling for "freebsd wheel group tab completion" find this top hit: http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html It's a "getting started" guide - you never know, they might just be following this? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Ever see something and think, "I've gotta leverage me some of that?" Odds are, you were looking at a synergy and didn't even know it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message