On Thursday 15 November 2007 00:01:31 you wrote:
> On Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 23:52:08 +0000, Paulo Moura Guedes wrote:
> > > > However, with /mnt/data as root dir, I can only make it work with
> > > > user = root.
> > >
> > > Yes, since user 'gnump3d' doesn't have permission to read that
> > > directory.
> >
> > I tried with my user ("mourao") which, as I said, belongs to plugdev.
>
> By default gnump3d runs with user=gnump3d. If you say that you've
> changed that to 'user=maurao' and that fails then I'm going to guess
> that it is an issue of the *primary group* of the user which is
> causing problems.
Correct.
> From memory the code, when started by root, tries to change to
> the primary group of the user - then the actual user. So if the
> primary group of 'gnump3d' is 'gnump3d', or something else, then
> this will fail.
>
> Simplest suggestion is to change the primary group.
OK, the problem was that plugdev was a secondary group of mourao. Apparently
it only works if it is a primary group (don't know why).
I put back user = gnump3d instead of mourao, changed the primary group of
gnupm3d to plugdev and it worked!
Thanks a lot
Paulo
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