Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ian Hastie <ianh@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:07:32
Message-Id: 20060324035358.75b72a41@iahastie.local.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;) by Antoine
1 On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:52:58 +0100
2 Antoine <melser.anton@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > so that means log into root before you run X.
5 > # vi groups (or whatever the "correct" way of doing it is)
6
7 vigr is the right editor for the group file and vipw for passwd. The
8 -s switch makes them edit the shadow file. As the man page says
9 the "programs will set the appropriate locks to prevent file
10 corruption".
11
12 > add your user to wheel
13
14 The method I've seen referred to on Gento is
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16 gpasswd -a <user> <group>
17
18 which adds the user to the named group.
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20 --
21 Ian.
22
23 EOM
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