Re: Adding a user to a group

[Rebecca Dridan <rdrid@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote:
> Done, thanks.
> But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio'  
> or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I 
> want, for example, artsd, which is started automatically by kde, to have 
> access to /dev/dsp.
> Is there a way to do this without entering a password (and preferably wi/o 
> having to wrap commands in sg)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan

(It's always better to post back to the list, as you have more people who can
answer your questions - they may have more idea than me too)

You can be part of more than one group at a time.  Just make sure you have
logged out and back in again to effect the changes of the adduser command. You
shouldn't need to explicitly log in to a new group to have audio access. If
that doesn't do what you needed, it's time to hand off to someone on the list
more knowledgable than me :)

Bec

> 
> On Monday 16 July 2001 08:26 pm, Rebecca Dridan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:17:40PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote:
> > > How do I add a user to a group?
> > > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing
> > > chmod a+rw on the relevant files.
> >
> > adduser <username> <groupname>
> >
> > ie adduser blah audio
> >
> > HTH
> > Bec