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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:29:32 -0800
From:      Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        craigtw@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root vs User question
Message-ID:  <20020401222945.6C54037B41B@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020401221026.FMH8792.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta1>
References:  <20020401221026.FMH8792.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@mta1>

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On Monday 01 April 2002 02:10 pm, craigtw@xtra.co.nz wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>       How do you turn on autocompletion and command history (DOSKEY-type
> stuff) for a user.  I've added the particular user to the wheel group in
> /etc/group, but autocomplete still doesn't work.  Please help.

The user doesn't need to be a member of wheel for this. Just use an 
appropriate shell.

Both tcsh and bash (among others) support autocompletion and command history. 
Bash is better at autocompletion than tcsh. So install bash and change the 
user's info. See man chpass.

David

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