Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] How to add a user

2009-03-25 Thread Walt Scrivens
I tried earlier to send a "Thank you" message, but it came back with "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed" I don't know what that means! Maybe it was the PGP signature. Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll give it a try tonight at home. Walt On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:12 AM, P

Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] How to add a user

2009-03-25 Thread Paul M
2009/3/25 Walt Scrivens : > I would have thought that setting the User and Group permissions to "777" in > /etc/passwd would give the kismet user all permissions in all files, but I > guess not. 777:777 in /etc/passwd was the user id and gid, not the permissions; not a good example on my part as

Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] How to add a user

2009-03-25 Thread Walt Scrivens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, Paul. I tried what you suggested: On Mar 22, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Paul M wrote: echo "kismet:x:777:777::/var/log/kismet:/bin/false" >> /etc/passwd pwconv ...but I don't seem to have a pwconv program either.I read up on the /etc/passwd

Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] How to add a user

2009-03-22 Thread Paul M
echo "kismet:x:777:777::/var/log/kismet:/bin/false" >> /etc/passwd pwconv ? !note the >> change 777:777 to whatever uid:gid you want. ___ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

[Angstrom-distro-users] How to add a user

2009-03-22 Thread Walt Scrivens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to add an "ordinary" user to Opie for kismet to use. there is no adduser command, and I can't find anything in the wiki about adding a user, nor is there an installable application I can find. How do I add a new user to Opie 1.2.3 (2007