In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, francisco m neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ยป Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > >> > I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound >> > hardware on >> >the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered >> >users only in the server, >> >> What do you mean with that sentence? > > They are "real" users only in the server machine. They are "virtual" >users on the clients. I mean, they are users on the server, and due to >the NIS the y can login in the clients, even not having a username >registered at those machines.
In that case they are as real as they come. GNU libc can use several sources to get account information from, and /etc/passwd is no more or less real than NIS (or LDAP for example) to the system. >> >I didn't manage to add them to the system >> >group 'audio', so they could have acces to /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp and >> >/dev/audio. >> >> Why not? What went wrong? > > It was complaining about not finding a name for groud XXX. > I tried again a few minutes ago and it worked. But if I issue the >command 'groups johndoe', I still get the same error message. If group 'audio' is defined in /etc/group on the local machine as well as on the master NIS server, make sure they have the same numeric group id or weird things like this will happen. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
