[ILUG] Permissions

[Philip Creevy]

cat returns pico:x:502:bob
ls -l of /dev/bus/usb/001/009 returns 
crw-rw---- 1 root pico 189, 8 Apr 29 22:08 /dev/bus/usb/001/009

A script is checking that the user is in the pico group with

username=$(id -un)
usergroups=$(id -Gn)      id -Gn returns bob at the command line

 # Determine whether the user is in the group of the file
 grouptest=$(echo \ $usergroups\  | sed "s/.*\ \($group\)\ .*/\1/")

I'am not a sed person so I would not know if the above is correct or not
but it does work when logged in as root

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:44 +0100, Ian wrote:
> run 
> 
> cat /etc/group | grep pico 
> 
> this should show all the members of pico
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         I am going around in circles with a permissions problem.
>         I have a user bob in groups bob, I now create a group pico
>         and add bob to the pico group with "usermod -a -G pico bob"
>         but when I log in as bob and run the groups command bob only
>         shows up in a group call bob and there is no sign of pico.
>         If I log is as root and run groups bob I get bob : bob pico
>         I have set up a USB device with permissions of root:pico
>         and want bob to be able to access this device.
>         Any ideas why bob is not showing up in the pico group.
>         
>         Regards
>         Philip
>         
>         
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