On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at
the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure
there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really
sure what groups I was a
On 07/16/01 21:12:16 -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
The easiest way I know is to manually edit the file /etc/group.
Hmmm. I didn't think of that! ;-) Okay, will do.
Thanks!
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Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
excerpted from usermod(8):
-G group,[...]
A list of supplementary groups which the user is
also a member of. Each group is separated from the
next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace.
The groups are subject to the same
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:47:24PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that
group instead of disk.
Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how
On 07/17/01 13:55:01 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
excerpted from usermod(8):
excerpt snipped
Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at
the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure
there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really
On 07/18/01 01:00:19 +, Robin Gerard wrote:
Have a look at the attached mail that I send you.
HTH
That was really nice. I've saved that message for future reference. It
worked like a charm and I'm in business and my system is safer for it
too.
Thanks!
--
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL
Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
(/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that
helps.
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:47:32PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
Hi all,
I'm
On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
(/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that
helps.
I saw that the device I was
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:01:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
On 07/16/01 00:18:38 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device
(/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not
part of the disk group? Try adding yourself
On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that
group instead of disk.
Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how
does one remove a user from a group? I'm looking at the man page for
usermod
On Monday July 16 2001 01:47, Mark Wagnon wrote:
On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that
group instead of disk.
Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how
does one remove a user from
Hi all,
I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged
user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a
permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp
and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a
normal user. I
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