Annoying Problems with User Accounts

[Richard Crawford]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 13:51, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> Well, yea, kinda.  I was just wondering what can your wife's account see in
> the /dev directory?  It could be that she can't see anything.  Another
> thing I"m wondering is if there is a difference in groups, etc. in your
> wife's account and yours.  /dev should have permissions:  766.
> However, you may want to back off those permissions for /dev/sda1 to 660
> because /dev/sda1 is not a directory, so executable is not needed.  (Also
> make sure root is the owner of the devices and disk is the group.)

Turns out the group for the USB device was "plugdev", which seemed reasonable 
to me.  I added my wife's account to the "plugdev" group, and that gave her 
access to the device.

Thanks for the tip!


-- 
Richard S. Crawford (http://www.mossroot.com)
"That which does not kill me makes me stranger."
    -Llewellyn, from Ozy & Millie
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