[ILUG-BOM] I/O ports access for normal users?

Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sun Jan 20 02:34:02 IST 2002


Sometime on Jan 19, Rahul Saxena assembled some asciibets to say:

> > >How do i add myself to the group? i guess.. in that
> > >case i wont be in my original group.

No, you can be a member of n groups at one time.  Pick your choice of n.

> would it be better if we ran the system in single user mode ???

No, it isn't a good idea.  It isn't a good idea to work as root either,
even if you trust everyone involved.  Mistakes happen.

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