On Fri, 03 Jan 2003, Jon just had to get this off his chest:
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:32:50PM +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
I suppose adding my user 'jon' to the 'trusted' group might work, but I also kind of think it might be ...well not "The Right Thing" to do?
Sure it is, that's what that group is there for.
Hmmm... yeah, it does work, so that's all good.
FTR: Go to YaST -> Security/Users -> Edit/create users -> Edit -> Details -> Additional Group membership. Mark the group, exit YaST, saving the setting...
Or the "easy" way; # vi /etc/group /trus $a,jon <Esc> ZZ
Log out, log back in, and now I can list, edit, a.s.o crontab... Kewl!
So that's all fine :)
The reason for my expressed uncertainty about adding myself to the group is that 'just add the user to the group' is not always The Right Thing:
As in sometimes threads about CD/HDD access and files in /dev/ being owned by root:disk (or whatever) in which case adding the user to group 'disk' is NOT the way to go...
Agreed, I am quit sure however that there is a note in the SuSE guide about this. The same as for e.g. group xok, which you need if you run the hardensuse script with paranoid settings.
Thanks anyway... I'm happy :)
Good. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.