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: