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[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi,

	Geoff is right here, of course. There is also a utility called 'usermod' that you can use to add yourself to any group.  As root, you do:

	usermod -G group1,group2,group3 username

	Note the capital -G. and you must list all groups that you will be in, including those you are already in, or you'll be removed from any that are omitted for the list.

	Just an alternative to editing the /etc/group file.

HTH

	--terry


Geof Shang wrote:

-=> Hi:
-=>
-=> Root's home directory is generally /root.  However, I'd suggest not using
-=> root to deal with mail, it's just not the done thing.  Just because root is
-=> the only account that can start and stop PPP, doesn't mean that you can't
-=> access the connection with any other account.
-=>
-=> The easiest and safest way to allow user access to such things is to find
-=> out what group has execute permissions and put your user account in it.
-=> For example, on my system, PPPD is owned by root and the dip group.  This
-=> means that if I put myself in the dip group and the dip group has execute
-=> permission on PPPD, I will be able to fire up PPP.  To put yourself in a
-=> group is easy.  Just edit the /etc/group file.  It'll probably have a line
-=> that looks like this:
-=>
-=> dip:x:30:
-=>
-=> If there's already an account in the group, it'll look like this:
-=>
-=> dip:x:30:user
-=>
-=> all you have to do is to add yourself to the end of the line.  If the group
-=> has at least one user in  it already, put a comma and then your user
-=> account, without any spaces, like so:
-=>
-=> dip:x:30:user1,user2,user3
-=>
-=> The lack of spaces is important.  I had something rewrite this with spaces
-=> once and I had a jolly old time trying to work out why audio permissions
-=> suddenly stopped working.
-=>
-=> You can get a list of the groups you're in by typing 'groups'.
-=>
-=> Anyway, hope this helps.
-=>
-=> Geoff.
-=>
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		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
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