[Gllug] Un-supported writing to floppy

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:06:14PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > manual to change 'permissions' (?) either as root , group or user to 
> > allow me to write to my floppy drive particularly to back up vital data 
> > from my word processor :-(  Can anyone please help?
> > Kind regards.
> > David
> 
>    Log in as root and hand edit /etc/group to add whichever users you wish
> to the various groups (I use vi which defaults to vim on Debian).
> 

On Debian you should use vigr to edit the group file.  Alternative ways
to add somebody to a group are usermod (works on all Linux
distributions) or adduser ("adduser username groupname", works only on
Debian).

-- 
Bruce

Explota!: miles de lemmings no pueden estar equivocados.
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