Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-07 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 06 September 2011 16:19:51 Fbsd8 wrote: > Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 September 2011 15:13:48 Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries > to issue mkdir comm

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-07 Thread Richard Collyer
On 07/09/2011 01:19, Fbsd8 wrote: Thank you Beech. I was entering the password of the user. When I entered root's password the script containing mkdir worked. One remaining question. Is there any time limit on having root access? I mean will root access remain until the user exits? Thanks again

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/09/2011 00:13, Fbsd8 wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group. > I su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get > returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command > embedded still returns Permission Denied messa

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Fbsd8
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 06 September 2011 15:13:48 Fbsd8 wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. How do I fix this? Make the director

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 06 September 2011 15:13:48 Fbsd8 wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to > >> issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. > >> > >> How do I fix this? > > > > Make the

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Jon Radel
On 9/6/11 7:13 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group. I su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command embedded still returns Permission Denied message. I have

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Fbsd8
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. How do I fix this? Make the directory that contains where your user is trying to create a new subdirectory wr

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Sep 6 11:07:48 2011 > Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:49:04 -0400 > From: Fbsd8 > To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: > Subject: wheel group & mkdir > > I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to > issue mkdir command i

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:49:32 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Either that, or teach your > user to use su(1) or sudo(1) so they can mkdir as root. (Adding users > to group wheel so they are permitted to run su(1) is a BSD-ism, and is > the usual reason for adding anyone to wheel.) Just an addition:

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/09/2011 16:49, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have a user that belongs to the wheel group but when the user tries to > issue mkdir command it gets a permission denied error. > > How do I fix this? Make the directory that contains where your user is trying to create a new subdirectory writable by group wh