From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 20:21:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66A037B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:21:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7EADC3282; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:45:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2DC3281 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:45:31 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:45:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: File and Program Permissions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message