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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:32:33 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: why am I administrator?
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At 02:35 AM 1/11/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Create a correct /etc/passwd entry, that's it. `mkpasswd' will be
>your friend. And read the documentation. That helps a lot and avoids
>having _everything_ twice, in the documentation and in the FAQ.

Right.  There's no need to make the FAQ a copy of the user documentation.
An entry that points there for this kind of question would be helpful but
anything much beyond that is overkill and promotes laziness.;-)


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