Re: "group" problem

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

blbol aimn ; bse meng wrote:
> 
> I created a new user called dbuser which I made a member of the
> root group.  When dbuser tries to create a file in /etc, he can't.
> Can someone tell me what I have done wrong?

As "ls -ald /etc" will show you, /etc is read-only even for those
in group "root".  Note that _group_ "root" is not the same as
_user_ "root".  Either insist on an su, or "chmod g+w /etc".

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com