Re: [Sheflug] mtink

[Geoff Schrecker <geoff.schrecker@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/17 robert <robert.fallis@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Andrew Richards wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 16 July 2009, robert wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I need to get mtink working again , after another crash, can some
>>> one give me the command line to make me a member of the group lp ,
>>>
>>
>> Just add your user name to the users in the group lp in /etc/group. You
>> need to edit that as root so for example,
>>
>>        sudo vi /etc/group
>>
>> You might end up with something like this,
>>
>>        lp:x:7:someusername,anotherusername,yourusername
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>
> thanks Andrew,  I can find /etc/group/  it just gives a list of groups the
> group lp as 7 entries  but I cant firgure a way of getting to....more help
> please
>
> bob


I've never really got the hand of vi, so generally use sudo gedit in
Ubuntu to edit files that need root access to file them.

Cheers Geoff

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