Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:45:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: File and Program Permissions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009091938470.11830-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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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
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