Re: Help needed starting audio
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:18:18PM +0000, Stuart Luscombe wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:18:43AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
> > Users and groups are different. /etc/group lists your groups.
> >
> > As user, type `groups`
> > You will get the names of any groups the user belongs to.
>
> I added the user into audio, this had no effect,
You'll need to log out and log back in (or use the 'newgrp' program, but
that only affects your current shell) before adding yourself to a
different group takes effect.
> so I then tried adding user into root (not secure I know), but this
> still has not worked.
The root group is different from the root user. Yes, this is a little
confusing.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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