Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/03/07 11:12), Dave Walker wrote: > I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would > like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So > far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share > directory. What is the best way to accomplish

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cédric Lucantis wrote: >>> I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would >>> like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So >>> far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share >>> directo

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Cédric Lucantis
> > I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would > > like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So > > far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share > > directory. What is the best way to accomplish this? > > > > I don't mind read

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Lale
Dave Walker wrote: I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share directory. What is the best way to accomplish this? I don't mind readin

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 09:12, Dave Walker wrote: > I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would > like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So > far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share > directory. What is the best way to acc

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Fred. > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Fred. > > Yeez, isn’t Yahoo Mail able to communicate with mailing lists? > > I don't understand what you mean. Yahoo Mail destroys the List-Post header thus forcing me to reply to you and replace your adress with that of this list.

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Fred. > > > I am using debian/testing with 2.6.15. > > the difference in the outputs below is the problem. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > > fred dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev > >

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Fred J.
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Fred.Yeez, isn’t Yahoo Mail able to communicate with mailing lists?I don't understand what you mean.Oh, and please cite only the least necessary part of my mail ok.and don’t answerbelow my signature. Thank you.I have been told to answer at the bottom

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Fred. Yeez, isn’t Yahoo Mail able to communicate with mailing lists? Oh, and please cite only the least necessary part of my mail and don’t answer below my signature. Thank you. > on the xterm I typed 'exit' then reopen the xterm again. is that the way to > log out and log back in? No, yo

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Fred J.
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Fred.> I am using debian/testing with 2.6.15.> the difference in the outputs below is the problem.> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > fred dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups fred> fred : fred dialout cdrom floppy

Re: groups output proplem

2006-09-16 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Fred. > I am using debian/testing with 2.6.15. > the difference in the outputs below is the problem. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > fred dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups fred > fred : fred dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev Did you ad

Re: groups

2005-06-09 Thread Adam Hardy
On 08/06/05 16:40 Robert Wolfe wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Adam Hardy wrote: I'm setting up a shared directory for java users. I'll make a 'java' group and assign the directory to it with rwx permissions. Then I noticed a group called staff - what's that for? My own user isn't in it. Hi th

Re: groups

2005-06-08 Thread Adam Hardy
On 08/06/05 12:10 Adam Hardy wrote: I'm setting up a shared directory for java users. I'll make a 'java' group and assign the directory to it with rwx permissions. Then I noticed a group called staff - what's that for? My own user isn't in it. Another Q: just played with /etc/adduser.conf an

Re: groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 23:53 schrieb David Morse: > I've never really understood it. When I add a user I want them to be > able to USE the blorking computer, not some crippled subset of the > computer dreamed up by someone who is thinking about Multics. I don't > want to remember that I hav

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread Matthias Hentges
[Please do not top-post] Am Fre, 2002-12-20 um 01.33 schrieb Kevin: > as which user are you doing this? > root > > what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)? > -rw-r--r--1 root 0 445 Dec 19 15:38 group > > what is the content of the file /etc/group

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-19 13:33:34 -0800]: > I have a problem with groups > > I get this error when I type groups: > > id: cannot find name for group ID 0 > 0 Check your /etc/group. It sounds like it is missing. If it is then you will have to restore or recreate it. The ba

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:52:48PM -0800, Kevin wrote: > FW: GroupsI have a problem with groups can any help please > I get this error when I type groups: > > id: cannot find name for group ID 0 > 0 What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin
- From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Groups > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > > > No still does not work. > > More info please: > - as which user are you doing

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread A.R. (Tom) Peters
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > No still does not work. More info please: - as which user are you doing this? - what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)? - what is the content of the file /etc/group ? - which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which group

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin
No still does not work. Thanks Kevin - Original Message - From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Groups > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > > > FW: GroupsI have

Re: Groups

2002-12-19 Thread A.R. (Tom) Peters
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote: > FW: GroupsI have a problem with groups can any help please > I get this error when I type groups: > > id: cannot find name for group ID 0 > 0 > > I can not add a user to a group. Has something happened to your /etc/group file? It should exist, and be world-read

Re: groups

2002-02-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> I don't know why it was originally adopted, but I can tell you Colin> why I think it's a good idea. If you're working on a shared Colin> project with another user, you'll want to make sure those Colin> files are group-writeable. If

Re: groups

2002-02-09 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sáb, 2002-02-09 às 15:57, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: > * Greg Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users were > > added they were defaultly added to the group "users". I see debian gives > > each > > user his/her own group.

Re: groups

2002-02-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Greg Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users were > added they were defaultly added to the group "users". I see debian gives each > user his/her own group. > > 1. Why did debian adopt this method? ISTR that it was discu

Re: groups

2002-02-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:24:29AM -0600, Greg Murphy wrote: > I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users were > added they were defaultly added to the group "users". I see debian gives each > user his/her own group. > > 1. Why did debian adopt this method? Same reas

Re: groups

2002-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:24:29AM -0600, Greg Murphy wrote: > I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users > were added they were defaultly added to the group "users". I see > debian gives each user his/her own group. > > 1. Why did debian adopt this method? I don't kno

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very > new to debian and linux/unix in general... > > I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is > working great,

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you! I think I'll follow your suggestion... On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Actually, according to FHS, anything that might be modified in the > course of using (as opposed to doing maintenance on) the system > should not be placed under /usr. This enables admins to mount /

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you > want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files. > (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would b

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Wow! Great! Thanks, That linux conf is very nice! Thanks for your answears, I'll give all that stuff a try! Take care! On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to > > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a c

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
> I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common directory for > the proyects we share and files we share... > > How would I go about that? does it go in /home? You may want to look at CVS (www.cvshome.org) It

Re: Groups and what not.

2000-01-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't feel like editing /etc/group (since if you screw something > up it could be Bad), you can use adduser, like so: > adduser larry stooges ...and don't forget to log out and in again.

Re: Groups and what not 2.

2000-01-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright said: > > BTW you need to be in audio to use the CD device as a CD player. > > I suspect that you should be able to use the CDROM to play audio CDs through > the headphone jack (assuming it has one, of course) without being in audio, > but

Re: Groups and what not 2.

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
David Wright said: > Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Also, you should be aware that the user cdrom is implicitly a member of the > > group cdrom and hans is implicitly a member of group hans, even though > > /etc/group doesn't list them. > > I thought user hans was a member of grou

Re: Groups and what not 2.

2000-01-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hans said: > > Also, you should be aware that the user cdrom is implicitly a member of the > group cdrom and hans is implicitly a member of group hans, even though > /etc/group doesn't list them. I thought user hans was a member of group hans because

Re: Groups and what not 2.

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Hans said: > There were already a great number of groups in /etc/group. Do I get it > right then that when I add myself to cdrom:x:24: (thus becoming > cdrom:x:24:hans) I have access to that device? In that case, for all practical purposes, yes. In the broader sense, once you log hans out and bac

Re: Groups and what not.

2000-01-27 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:51:56PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > So, to create a group named 'stooges', all you need to do is add > > stooges:x:5000:larry,moe,curly If you don't feel like editing /etc/group (since if you screw something up it could be Bad), you can use adduser, like so: add

Re: Groups and what not.

2000-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Hans said: > Can someone give me a pointer to some on-line info on group management > (preferably in laymen's terms). For the full scoop, try man group. The simple version, though, will probably be sufficient: /etc/group is the file where groups are defined. Each line is of the form groupname:

Re: Groups

1999-06-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > come on, that's not very good idea to edit groups manually Why not? It's just a delimited text file. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread Carl Mummert
>From message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? as root # adduser user group Carl

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? > > > > I've set etc/ppp to root dip > > When i ad a user to the dip group, can this user make a connection to > > the internet, using pon ??? > > > > type vigr at the command prompt

Re: Groups

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > Hi, > > How can I ad a user into the dip group ??? > > I've set etc/ppp to root dip > When i ad a user to the dip group, can this user make a connection to > the internet, using pon ??? > type vigr at the command prompt. Scroll down to the dip group. After the colon write the users name.

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread Sean
If you just want access from your user account and root, just change the group of the folder to the same group as your user account & type (as root) chmod g+rw foldername. If you have a bunch of user accounts that you want to be able to access the folder, just change the folder's group to somet

Re: Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread Marc Mongeon
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