Rodney Baker wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:30:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or you can get *REALLY* barbaric and manually edit /etc/group
Search for the uucp line - add your username to the list.
Originally, it looks like:
uucp:x:14:uucp
Make it look like:
uucp:x:14:uucp,name
Where 'name' is your username.
Not such a good idea - then Fedora complains that /etc/group and /etc/gshadow
don't match which can totally stuff things up. The same thing happens if you
manually edit /etc/passwd - the password file and the shadow password file
get out of sync which can cause authentication problems.
When using shadow passwords and groups it is always much safer to use the
tools provided that keep things properly in sync.
I know - I found out the hard way (by manually editing /etc/group...<grin>).
Interesting as I've manually added users to the Wheel group on each of
my dozen or so Fedora boxen and have never had a problem with it. In
fact, looking now at /etc/gshadow, I see the changes I manually made
have been included there too! I know I didn't do it.
But, I do agree on the passwords an problems with manually editing
/etc/passwd. All I've ever done there is disable users by changing their
shell to /bin/nologin. Works great!
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