Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:49:46 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some newbie questions Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204041547450.16488-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200204040935380337.02E23686@mail.attbi.com>
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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
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