[Dapper] How to get mounted disk show on the desktop

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:08:45 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > For example, to use one of my software, I need to make myself part
> > > of the "lp" group, so I can access /dev/parport0 as a regular user
> > > instead of root. Well, I would not mind knowing how to make this
> > > change take effect without having to reboot...
> > 
> > sudo gpasswd -a <username> lp
> > will assign you permanent membership to group lp.
> 
> Thanks, didn't know the command line for that (I used the GUI in
> System->Administration->Users and Groups

interesting. I add users to groups with

sudo adduser <username> <group>

for instance

sudo adduser peter lp

Not quite sure what the difference is , if any. 

/me looks at man gpasswd....

Peter