Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:13:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File and Program Permissions Message-ID: <14780.55932.141621.169275@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <123527634@toto.iv>
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Rick Hamell writes: > In /usr/X11R6/bin there are several programs I want a regular user > to be able to run, such and xcdplayer and xsane. How do I go about setting > that up? The user is already part of wheel, and just about everything in > that directory is owned by the wheel group. As such I believe I should be > able to run it... but I still get permission denied. I would change the > permissions on the file it self, or even the owner of the file, but I > don't want to have to do that with every file, or accidently create > security holes... > The only major problem I can figure is that both those two > programs uses devices in the /dev directory which may be giving the > permission denied error instead. How would I go about fixing that? Should > I make the operator group and add my users into that also? Then make the > whole /dev directory owned by group operator (or even just certain devices > that are needed,) or will that cause problems too? More information, please. An ls -l of the files (and devices) in question; and the exact text of the error messages you get when you run them from the shell. From the sound of things, you're right - but why bother telling you how to fix the wrong problem? The requested information should tell whether your analysis is correct. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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