* 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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