Hello all. First; let me say thanks to Eduard Bloch for the clarification on my Woody install problems. I installed a Potato base, and upgraded. Not graceful, I suppose, but it did the trick :)
Today's questions are all about group, group-, and /etc/group.org, those fun little files that live in /etc. I checked the archives, but came up with nothing useful. First question: Why are there three of these files? I thought there should only be /etc/group. (?) The next question is a bit more involved, perhaps: Can we nest groups in Debian or in GNU/Linux in general? -My guess would be "yes" but my experimentation is pretty much indicating "no". I've added my unpriv'd user accounts to the group "staff". Then I put "staff" into the group "audio", with the hope that the unpriv'd users would now have audio access. Typing "groups" as any of those unpriv'd accounts yielded: staff and nothing else. This would indicate to me that nesting does not work in GNU/Linux, or at least in my vanilla Woody config. Could someone please shed some light on this? I logged out and back in, btw, which should have forced the change (or am I mistaken?). All mods (done in vim, btw) had been replicated to all three (see above) variations of /etc/group*, in case anyone was wondering. My config currently has this user account explicitly added to audio and dip (and what is that group for, btw?), so I have audio currently working for this acct. Thanks in advance! Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (250) 479-0321 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]