Hi, I think you need to read through the beginner links that Doc sent, specifically UNIX is a Four letter word.
You might also be interested in the following link. "How to ask questions the smart way." http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The answer to your questions is file permissions, and the second column with names listed in the output of ls -l... That tells you which group owns the file. Everything is a file is a common abstraction and design principle for unix, so even access to devices is done through the guise of operations on files. Thats what /dev is all about, special files that describe devices on your system. So on my system only users in the group audio are able to access my sound card through /dev/dsp: output of ls -l /dev/dsp0: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 28 06:06 /dev/dsp0 -Omar "Nothing exceeds like excess" -Oscar Wilde > I was looking more to find out what permissions each user group yields, etc.? > I see all the groups listed in /etc/group and have no clue what > authorizations each group has...? any clue ? _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
