Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-08-01 Thread Omar El-Domeiri
Hi, I think you need to read through the beginner links that Doc sent, specifically UNIX is a Four letter word. You might also be interested in the following link. "How to ask questions the smart way." http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The answer to your questions is file permi

Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-08-01 Thread Jkk21
In a message dated 7/29/2003 11:24:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Every users belongs to one or several groups (ex: root, admin, user, > > www-user, staff). > > > > /etc/groups has the information on how much privilege each groups has. > > A user gets the privileges o

Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-07-29 Thread Doc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what all the groups listed in /etc/groups mean? I tried googling for it, but none of the links give me specific information. I was just wondering if anyone knows or if they have a link they found somewhere that details it all. First, if you really

Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Carinhas
> Every users belongs to one or several groups (ex: root, admin, user, > www-user, staff). > > /etc/groups has the information on how much privilege each groups has. > A user gets the privileges of the group(s) user belongs to. > > `man groups` has little detail. > `info groups` details it all. >

Re: [Siglinux] Linux Users and Groups

2003-07-29 Thread Zahed
Every users belongs to one or several groups (ex: root, admin, user, www-user, staff). /etc/groups has the information on how much privilege each groups has. A user gets the privileges of the group(s) user belongs to. `man groups` has little detail. `info groups` details it all. Please correct m