groups, using "www" as "kline"

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel and operator group. gary ps: thing i never learned in kindergarten:-) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Se

Re: groups, using "www" as "kline"

2008-07-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel and operator group. Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are group-writable, you

Re: groups, using "www" as "kline"

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files > > chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel > > and operator group. > > Presuming you are in th

Re: groups, using "www" as "kline"

2008-07-21 Thread Brad Mettee
What are the permissions on the files you're trying to edit? 664 would allow owner/group editing, but readonly by world. If it's 644, then only owner can edit, but group/world can read. At 04:05 PM 7/21/2008, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 21,