Re: chown to change group ownership

1999-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Paul Nathan Puri writes: > I want to change pon and poff to be owned by users. How do > I change them with chown? Why do you want to do this? It won't make it possible for the users to start ppp. To do that you must put the users in the 'dip' group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasle

Re: chown to change group ownership

1999-02-23 Thread Jim Foltz
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:40:30AM +, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I want to change pon and poff to be owned by users. How do > I change them with chown? Paul, If all you want is for non-root users to be able to start and stop a ppp connection, the recommended way is to add each privileged us

Re: chown to change group ownership

1999-02-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I want to change pon and poff to be owned by users. How do > I change them with chown? If I understood your subject right, you want to change the group owner of a file, and not the owner? Try chgrp. With chown joe. file you change the ownership of file to joe, _and_ the group ownership