Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there, I hope you can forgive my ignorance in this issues, I'm very > new to debian and linux/unix in general... > > I installed potato in this ibm pc 325 i got from ebay, everything is > working great,

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thank you! I think I'll follow your suggestion... On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Actually, according to FHS, anything that might be modified in the > course of using (as opposed to doing maintenance on) the system > should not be placed under /usr. This enables admins to mount /

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you > want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files. > (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would b

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
tone) /home or /usr would be > a perfectly valid place. > > > > > I guess that for that i need to creat a group to which we will both belong > > so that only we have acces to it without having to change user accounts, > > so if you can also tell me where to find info ab

Re: Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
u can also tell me where to find info about common practices to > manage groups and users I'll appreciate it... Also, is there an easy to > use tool to manage groups and users in a term? I would check out linuxconf, available as a debian package, or webmin (www.webmin.com/webmin) which is

Groups and Users...

2001-10-11 Thread Alexander Wallace
user accounts, so if you can also tell me where to find info about common practices to manage groups and users I'll appreciate it... Also, is there an easy to use tool to manage groups and users in a term? The other question: How do I protect a web page with a password? Let's say that I cre