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From: solovay@cartan.berkeley.edu (Robert M. Solovay)
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Subject: Permissions for new user
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Date: 20 Aug 90 22:52:41 GMT
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I have a stand-alone NeXT with the system booting from a 330 meg
hard-disk. Up till a week ago, I had two accounts on the machine,
"root" and "me" as well as a certain number of invisible accounts
(such as daemon).

Recently I added a new account for my son who is visiting. The problem
is that he seems to lack certain crucial permissions that the "me"
account has. For example, he couldn't read the file "article.sty"
which is needed by the latex program until I "chmod"ed it so that
"other" as well as "user" and "group' could use it. Also, when one
gives the su command from his account, one gets a permission denied
message; from the "me' account one gets a request for a password.

So my question has two parts:1) What groups other than "other" does
"me' belong to; 2) How do I give the new account membership in these
groups as well.

Thanks very much for any help with this.
Robert Solovay              | I'm holding my hand out in front of me.
solovay@cartan.berkeley.edu | It's amazing! I can open and close it!
Just like that. No problem. I just decide to do it and it's done.
There's something very strange going on here. (JOHN HOAG, 1987)