Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
See also gpasswd(1). It's cake. Vineet * Martin F. Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010716 17:58]: also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. /etc/group describes

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: i am sure that there are command-line utilities to do that, but then again, /etc/group is so old and so standard that you can safely do this by hand without violating some debian policy or philosophy, right? That's basically what adduser username

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Nathan Weston
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:47 pm, Rebecca Dridan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Done, thanks. But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio' or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I want,

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: SNIP Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? Anyway, now that I've logged out and back in, everything works fine. Thanks.

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on reply-to considered harmful for more

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Joseph Dane
Dave == Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:50:19AM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Oops, I meant to post back to the list... is there a reason that the list address isn't in the reply-to by default, like it is on most lists? Dave 1) Yes, there is a

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:21:32AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: Dave == Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave 1) Yes, there is a reason. Do a search on reply-to considered Dave harmful for more information. do a search for 'reply-to munging considered useful', for what I feel is a

Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Nathan Weston
How do I add a user to a group? I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. Thanks, Nathan

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:17:40PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: How do I add a user to a group? I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. adduser username groupname ie adduser blah audio HTH Bec

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. /etc/group describes the groups on a system. a comma-separated list of users at the end of a particular line stands for

Re: Adding a user to a group

2001-07-16 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: Done, thanks. But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio' or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I want, for example, artsd, which is started automatically by