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by **Michael B. All** » Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:06:13

Should I add myself as a member of the group 'root'? It's a home machine
so I'm not really worried about security. I just thought it might save
be from becoming root a few times. Really the problem is that I have a
separate partition called /d that has tons of junk and data and I want
to be able to access that as myself. I can chown -R it to say 'nobody'
and put myself in that grroup?

What would you do?

Thanks,
Mike

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by **Drew Roedersheim** » Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:11:06

Quote:>Should I add myself as a member of the group 'root'? It's a home machine
>so I'm not really worried about security. I just thought it might save
>be from becoming root a few times. Really the problem is that I have a
>separate partition called /d that has tons of junk and data and I want
>to be able to access that as myself. I can chown -R it to say 'nobody'
>and put myself in that grroup?

>What would you do?

>Thanks,
>Mike

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I don't know if you can add yourself to the group root or not, but I
wouldn't even if you can... I have a separate disk that I use for
periodic backups, and I simply created a backup group in /etc/groups
and added myself to that group. Then I chowned that mount point's
(and subdirs) group to backup and changed permissions appropriately.
This seems to be the type of behavior you're looking for.

Now, if you're wondering about being able to mount/umount a particular
partion - that's an entirely different issue.

HTH
-DR

by **Joseph Ovadi** » Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:12:54

Just login as root. and use that as your ID.

> >Should I add myself as a member of the group 'root'? It's a home machine
> >so I'm not really worried about security. I just thought it might save
> >be from becoming root a few times. Really the problem is that I have a
> >separate partition called /d that has tons of junk and data and I want
> >to be able to access that as myself. I can chown -R it to say 'nobody'
> >and put myself in that grroup?

> >What would you do?

> >Thanks,
> >Mike

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> >signature pending

> I don't know if you can add yourself to the group root or not, but I
> wouldn't even if you can... I have a separate disk that I use for
> periodic backups, and I simply created a backup group in /etc/groups
> and added myself to that group. Then I chowned that mount point's
> (and subdirs) group to backup and changed permissions appropriately.
> This seems to be the type of behavior you're looking for.

> Now, if you're wondering about being able to mount/umount a particular
> partion - that's an entirely different issue.

> HTH
> -DR

by **Michael B. All** » Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:00:58

>>be from becoming root a few times. Really the problem is that I have a
>>separate partition called /d that has tons of junk and data and I want
>>to be able to access that as myself. I can chown -R it to say 'nobody'

>periodic backups, and I simply created a backup group in /etc/groups
>and added myself to that group. Then I chowned that mount point's

I just made myself a member of the nobody group(already there in RH Linux)
and mount /d on boot with the grpid option like:

/dev/hda3 /d ext2 grpid 0 0

and changed the group id of /d to nobody. The grpid option ensures
all files written get the gid of the parent directory. That should be
sufficient to satisfy the multiple personalities I have on my system :)

Thanks,
Mike

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