Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
See also gpasswd(1). It's cake. Vineet * Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010716 17:58]: > also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): > > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. > > /etc/group des

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:21:32AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave> 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on "reply-to considered > Dave> harmful" for more information. > > do a search for 'reply-to munging considered useful', for w

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: >> Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that >> the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on >> most lists? Dave> 1) Yes,

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list > address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on "reply-to considered harmful" for more infor

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list > address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? > Anyway, now that I've logged out and back in, everything works fine. > Thanks. > > N

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:47 pm, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > > Done, thanks. > > But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp > > audio' or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here > > is that

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > i am sure that there are command-line utilities to do that, but then > again, /etc/group is so old and so standard that you can safely do > this by hand without violating some debian policy or philosophy, > right? That's basically what "adduser usern

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > Done, thanks. > But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio' > or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I > want, for example, artsd, which is started automatically by

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. /etc/group describes the groups on a system. a comma-separated list of users at the end of a particular line stands for

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:17:40PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > How do I add a user to a group? > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. adduser ie adduser blah audio HTH Bec

Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
How do I add a user to a group? I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. Thanks, Nathan