permissions question

[Sean McMahon]

You have to run usermod as root of course.  You can always add yourself to
the group by editing the /etc/groups file.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <arimo at netsonic.fi>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: permissions question


> Ari,
>
> When I run id I get the following.
>
> uid=500(showell) gid=500(showell) groups=500(showell),503(x10)
>
> I did try logging out of one shell and logging back in with no change.
> The program just says it can't write to that directory. The directory is
> off /etc, but I wouldn't think this would matter.
>
> tnx
> Scott
>
>
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