Incoming from Michael Walters: > > I do not believe that when it says that it is read only, that that means root > can not write to it, but more that it is an important file that can damage > the way the program starts up on boot if I make a mistake while editing it.
It certainly is, but I've never seen anything on Linux that complains the way you mentioned it did when you tried to edit it. For what it's worth, fstab is the config file that controls the "mount" and "umount" commands. The system uses its definitions at boot time, shutdown, and during interactive use. If you did break it, you would possibly find it somewhat more difficult to boot, shutdown, or mount/dismount floppies/CD's/partitions. However, it wouldn't completely hose your system. You can recover by booting with a Linux install disk, Knoppix CD, or rescue floppy. > fstab. But I think it already is -rw-r--r-- 1 root root (and so on). However If so, ignore the chmod. That ----^^^^^^^^^^ is correct. > I will do the chmod 644/etc/fstab if adduser does not work. And I will go to > the man pages for adduser before doing that. On my system, I find "groupmod" and "vipw" and "vigr". Presumably one (or all?) of those is intended to do this for you. However, I've never had any problem with simply editing /etc/group with vi. Just add the new username onto the end of the "floppy" line, and have the user log out and back in. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
