Now that you're through whining...
Check out the man page for usermod on how to add secondary group privileges
to users. This was the standard procedure I was referring to, not editing
any /etc file. It's covered in any basic text on configuring UNIX systems.
You must have one laying around someplace where you work.
That's as easy as it's going to get for "Joe User" without giving up the
security features of Linux. Probably should have been handled during
install but that wasn't your question.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian J. Murrell
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 10:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] RE: how are users supposed to get added to the "audio"
> group?
>
>
> from the quill of "Thomas M. Beaudry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
> <000701bf59ec$6b312500$8a8280d8@mosehern>
> > Log in as root and add users to group "audio". This is a standard
> > operation
> > that you should be familiar with from your signature...
>
> Grrrrrr!! I cannot believe you answered that question with that
> answer!! Was I not clear that I was asking "how is it supposed to
> happen"? Was I not clear that I understand how to add users to groups?
> Is Joe User that picks up his Mandrake 7.0 at <favorite computer store>
> supposed to know to do that? How? Is asking him to log in as root and
> edit the groups file really the level of user-friendliness that we are
> trying to achieve here?
>
> Sheesh!!
>
> b.
>
>
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