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  Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
 
(...) Actually, check out the 'gpasswd' command from the linux shadow-utils suite. This allows non-root users to be defined as group administrators, and these people can add and remove people from their groups. (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
 
I gotta get better hosting for those pics... Ed "Julie Krenz" <dkrenz@mc.net> wrote in message news:GH3I1t.2GM@lugnet.com... (...) all (...) tone (...) another (...) view (...) the (...) on the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Browser Usage
 
(...) Hi Paul, I regularly use both - I prefer NS, but sometimes IE is the only browser I have available. Just to make things difficult, I've been known to use lynx occasionally, Mozilla is starting to become usable, and I'm pretty impressed with (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: heh someone here has a virus.
 
(...) The new sircam virus is pounding away at Tulane's mail servers too. According to our IS department (URL) virus also looks through your browser cache files for email addresses. Chris (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
 
(...) National Sysadmin Day? Who knew? Now it's gone. Er.. maybe it's just third shift.. (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: copyright myths
 
(...) misunderstanding of some aspect of it? Or is it just because we would all of us obviously need TLC's and Ritvik's permission to post creations comprised of their patented and copyrighted stuff (especially, if it's something like a giant (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  copyright myths
 
I just found this interesting :) (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
 
James: (...) Yup! When I left yesterday's edition in the printer room, a colleague of mine commented that it was easy to see that I was back from vacation. :-) Jacob (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
 
(...) I threw all of my Brickbay pictures on Brickshelf. Josh (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: LEGO mentioned in U-F today. (07/23/01)
 
(...) ...And again today. (07/26/01) This may become a plotline. :) :) any other UFies out there? James (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  My new and improved website is now online!
 
All of my Space, Air, Water, and Land creations have a new home-- at the shortest URL yet! Most of my old stuff and all my stuff is there. Please feel free to use the rating form on anything you look at: (URL) LMKWYT, update your links, and let me (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build, lugnet.boats, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars) ! 
 
  Re: Armageddon Class Destroyer
 
(...) So my ears were burning, pain, pain, terrible pain, and...oh, wait. Nobody cares about flaming earwax. But someone said "wet navy," so here I am. The organization of naval classes depends to a certain extent on precisely what era you're (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Previous and next links a la Brickshelf
 
(...) Well, I'm done creating all the PHP scripts for my "new" website (except a search engine...but that'll come when I have more time) All that remains is to put it all together... and then my website will finally be as easy to update as uploading (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Previous and next links a la Brickshelf
 
(...) I dunno PHP either, but it's very easy to learn as you go along. (...) Thanks once again, Dan. I should have thought of that myself. And it's easy to translate into just about any language. --Bram (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Previous and next links a la Brickshelf
 
(...) hmmm... dunno php, but try this in perl: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $current = shift; $prev = ''; $next = ''; while (<>) { ($name) = split /,/; if ($name eq $current) { $next = <>; ($next) = split /,/, $next; last; } $prev = $name; } this is untested, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Previous and next links a la Brickshelf
 
Hi all, If I have a comma separated text file of the form: filename.ext,thumbnail width,thumbnail height,img width,img height for example: inside3.jpg,100,75,640,480 over.jpg,100,75,640,480 stairs.jpg,100,64,640,410 tower.jpg,78,100,320,410 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
 
(...) I guess I'll risk that. It's still safer than just using mod 777, right? Thanks for all the help, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
 
(...) (assuming that the directory is group owned by dlsesign) - yup, that'll work. just don't forget that _anyone_ that has cgi access on that server will be able to read/write to that directory... On a shared box, that may mean 100s of people. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
 
(...) Thanks, Dan! Will adding "nobody" to group "bldesign" make it possible for my php script to write to directories set at mod 775? I'd like to know for sure before I ask support if they'll do that for me. Thanks, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
 
(...) to see who's in a group: grep "groupname" /etc/group to see what groups a user belongs to: id "user" to add users to a group, you have to be able to edit the /etc/group file - which (on any sane system), only root can do. sorry... (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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