On 10/26/07, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, could someone tell me what has happened with the DVD burner that CLUG was > going to buy for Caledonian, the Linux PC at the St Albans NNet? > > I'd like to get it up and running before the next meeting, thanks. > > And, FWIW, I've got the new /var/linuxisos disk owned by the group lnxdisk and > it's supposed to be writable by the user nn, which is also part of the group > lnxdisk, but I wasn't able to write anything on it. > "drwxrwxr-x root lnxdisk" > What should I have done?
Checked that the user 'nn' is actually in the group lnxdisk While 'nn' is logged in to a console issue the command 'id' which will tell you who you are, and in which groups you are. To add a user to a group you can either edit the group file with the vigr command or use the command usermod man 8 usermod for all the gore. ( I think using the vigr command is far easier than remembering all the usermod options ) imho, use of a generic unix user account with a widely known username and password is an anathema. Users should be given personal accounts and then the facilities they need using the unix permissions structure, and possibly the sudoers list as needed. Also folks, please note that all the distribution files in the archive have had any extra padding bytes removed and the md5 sums have been checked against an external source wherever possible. There are a very few distros which don't have .md5 files. I have not been able to discover md5 sums for these ones. Use at you own risk. $DEITIES willing, I sincerely hope this exercise will be running by next Tuesday. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
