Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before shutting the old system down I

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:24 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail.

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems. I can only stop gdm as root. If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same ^^^ gdm too? That's strange ... problems. If

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems. I can only stop gdm as root. If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd. Then I switched out the hardware, did a

Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas H. George
After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as root I can successfully start and user both iceape and openoffice. I need

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as root I can successfully start

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:34:03 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:34:03 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Thomas H. George

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-18 Thread Joost Witteveen
Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with

NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Christian Convey
My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with local security files. I

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home

Re: file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-06 Thread lorian
Eric, /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete files/dirs. The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can delete, create, or rename a file. Read permission for the

Re: file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 14:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete files/dirs. The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can delete,

file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-05 Thread Eric Walstad
Hi All, I'm trying to set up some restrictions to a couple of directories and their files and just can't seem to get it right. Here's what I'm trying to do: /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete files/dirs. /bar - Only folks in the 'admin' group can read,

Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

1998-07-05 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 02:53:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip. Login as root (or su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'. That should do it, you can check what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'. As for

[I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

1998-07-04 Thread Martin Schulze
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Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

1998-07-04 Thread ej
All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip. Login as root (or su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'. That should do it, you can check what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'. As for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them. _ _ |

Re: [I98turboRI@aol.com: Newbie permissions question.]

1998-07-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
e == ej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: e for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/node5.html#SECTION00510 have also some introducery words about permissions. Ciao,