Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:02:44 -0700 From: "Alex Davidson" <alexd@idcomm.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Newbie - Users and Groups Message-ID: <00c201be284c$d18a9b60$6000a8c0@alexd>
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I am still new to this so bear with me. I originally installed v2.2.7 from a DOS partition and then installed downloaded apps when logged in as root thus causing space problems on /. I then decided that as I had learned so much the first time and I had used it so little anyway that it wouldn't hurt to re-install from scratch - plus I finally had my hands on the Complete FreeBSD book with the CDs - thanks Greg! ;-) So I re-installed last night and when I did I added a group called users and created a user named alexd and said I was in the users group. Everything cool so far. I then logged in as alexd and tried (for example): cp /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and ee ppp.conf and ppp and found that my privilege level was not sufficient to allow to do any of those things (save changes in the case of ee ppp.conf). I then logged in as root and changed /etc/group and on each line where root was listed I added ",alexd" - I can now become superuser as I am in the wheel group but am still unable to copy, save changes to files in ee or run ppp! What am I missing here? Strikes me there's got to be a way to allow users 1) the same access as root, or 2) some of the access that root has like running ppp but not necessarily changing the ppp.conf file - I would like 1) for myself but 2) for others. Can someone point me to a site maybe that would get me going? I am still working through Greg's fab book but although it discusses groups and users it doesn't seem to answer my questions. Thanks, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alex Davidson Email/PowWow: alexd@idcomm.com ICQ Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/264464 http://www.idcomm.com/personal/alexd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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