Re: NIS and device permissions

[francisco m neto <einstein@socrates.if.usp.br>]

» Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo:

> >		I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound hardware on
> >the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered
> >users only in the server,
> 
> What do you mean with that sentence?

	They are "real" users only in the server machine. They are "virtual" users on the clients. I mean, they are users on the server, and due to the NIS the y can login in the clients, even not having a username registered at those machines.

> >I didn't manage to add them to the system
> >group 'audio', so they could have acces to /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp and
> >/dev/audio.
> 
> Why not? What went wrong?

	It was complaining about not finding a name for groud XXX.

	I tried again a few minutes ago and it worked. But if I issue the command 'groups johndoe', I still get the same error message.

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