groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-08 Thread David Morse
Alexander Fitterling wrote: PS this Debian concept with separate group permissions is very efficient and I think gives more transparency as you would install programms as suid bit and must run as root. Also chmod 666 to devices as done by different distritbutions seems wired to me. I've never

Re: groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-08 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 23:53 schrieb David Morse: I've never really understood it. When I add a user I want them to be able to USE the blorking computer, not some crippled subset of the computer dreamed up by someone who is thinking about Multics. I don't want to remember that I have