Re: [Sheflug] mtink

[Adam Funk <a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[17/07/09 11:47] Geoff Schrecker wrote:
> 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

>> 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

> 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.

The safest way to add an existing user to an existing group is this:

sudo adduser fred lp


It checks everything and won't break the files (as you can with an
typing mistake).

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