every file has an owner and a group ownership
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 67 Dec 1 10:04 /etc/resolv.conf
^ ^
owner group ownership
to change the group ownership of this file to hellokitty:
chgrp hellokitty /etc/resolv.conf
to change the owner to damndog and group ownership to hellokitty, you can use
chown:
chown damndog.hellokitty /etc/resolv.conf
i think colon works too.
chown damndog:hellokitty /etc/resolv.conf
you can also use chown to change just the ownership as well:
chown damndog /etc/resolv.conf
the rules over who can chown and chgrp are a little complicated. best to do
this with root.
pete
On Mon 12 Mar 01, 9:11 PM, Larry Snyder said:
> >> ...suggest you change group of /etc/resolv.conf to "dialout", make sure
> >> your user account belongs to group dialout...
>
> Pete,
>
> The second half of this makes sense, since /etc/group contains the
> "dialout" key that Bill mentioned, and my username was already in it. But
> I'm not at all clear what it means to "change group of ...resolv.conf to
> 'dialout'." In my ignorance of the system, I can make the English syntax
> of that clause mean several different things, none of which fit with
> what I can see on the box.
>
> Thanks for the tip on the book. I've also got an earlier edition of Matt
> Welsh's O'Reilly book here, which has been some help as a quick
> reference as well.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
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