On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > You'll want to add the users that must be able to read the raw cdrom > device (as opposed to a mounted filesystem on the cdrom) to the cdrom > group. The same with group audio. > > This is done with the adduser command. > > adduser <username> <groupname> > > will add <username> to <groupname> (don't actually type the <'s and >'s, > those are special characters and may confuse the shell and you.)
The way I read the above you would have to add a user that is in group cdrom, one that is in group audio, etc. This is nonsense, of course. Any user can be in many different groups. I don't know a standard utility for adding a user to a group, but doing it 'by hand' is real simple. Suppose you have a user you want to add to the group 'cdrom'. As root, edit /etc/group and look for the line starting with the word 'cdrom'. After the last colon (:) on that line, you can add a comma-separated list of users that should be in that group. If you are using shadow passwords, do the same with /etc/gshadow. For example, I have this line in /etc/group: audio:x:29:remco and this line in /etc/gshadow: audio:*::remco You don't need to do this for a user's 'main' group (which has the same name as the user on a Debian system), because it is specified in /etc/passwd. After you have saved the file(s), the users that you have added to the group only need to login to become a member of the group. Already logged-in users need to logout and login to become a member of the group. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
