I really wish it was that simple :) unfortunately....well, I rebooted it after making the group changes because I wanted to get the kernel changes to take effect.
kenobi:~$ id uid=1000(william) gid=407(william) groups=5(tty),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),407(william) any other suggestions? -- William Sutton On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Alan Porter wrote: > > >My user is in the video group in both > >/etc/group and /etc/gshadow, and the devices have the following > >permissions: > > > >kenobi dev # ls -l video* > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root video 6 Jan 17 11:16 video -> video0 > >crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 Jul 26 13:12 video0 > >crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 Jul 26 13:12 video1 > >[snipped] > > > > > > > Remember that you can't just edit the files for this to > take effect. You have to re-login. > > Do an "id" to see if you're in the groups. Then log out > and log back in and re-do the "id". > > Boy, wouldn't it be nice if it were as simple as that? > Somehow, I doubt it. > > > Alan > > > > > . > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
