[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> ok, it seems as though I hadn't rebooted since I created the group
> umlusrs and for some reason while I was in the /etc/groups file as
> being a member of umlusrs, that didn't take effect ... I had to
> reboot.  Does anyone know why that is?  (newbie alert, newbie alert!)

permissions are granted at login time. You didn't need to reboot, just
logout and log back in.

If you want to know what permissions you have, use id(1), not grep
/etc/group.

> After reboot I had to reset the permissions on /dev/net/tun to 660 but
> then it all worked fine.  how can I get the permissions 660 to stick
> on /dev/net/tun?

If the permissions change with reboot then they're probably put there by
udev. 

Jason


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