Hello, I have just installed minix 2.0.0 on my Epson Equity Lt and have created a new group named users (GUI 100) and a new user. Unfortunately the users group recieved all of the permissions of the root (dont know how). I tested it by editing /etc/passwd in the new group. Can anyone tell me the file or way to change the permissions of groups. Thanks

chgrp -R users <username> taurus

Taurus, Thanks for your response, but unfortunately the result of this command is No such File or Directory. I did a web search of chgrp and found on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/chgrp.1.asp that the command is chgrp [-fR] group pathname ... . I think maybe the pathname might be / but I just wanted to check what you though before I tried it.

Maybe I didn't explain it clearly on my previous post. Let's assuming that user john whose home directory is /home/john has a primary group of root but you woulk like john's group to be users, log in as root and type chgrp -R users /home/john I hope the example above would give you a better understanding of chgrp... taurus

Taurus, Thanks, when I had tested writing using vi of /etc/passwd to see if the user didn't have all of the permissions of the root it let me write to it. I had misakenly thought that this meant I had too much permission, but I just realized it prevents you from saving, not writing to it in this version of elvis. This was after I used your suggested command, but in creating the /home directory I had used chown -R and chmod -R, so I'm not sure if it actually did change all permissions or just in that folder. I'm by no means an expert, just trying to learn some of these commands so I really appriate all your help. I just have one more question. Using my users user (john in above example) I was able to enter the /root folder. How would I prevent john from accessing this folder.

Hmm... A regular user can't even view stuff in /root as a default! You must have changed the permission of your /root or something. To disallow everything to "ls -la" /root, do chmod 700 /root Now, too bad for user john because he can't see anything in /root :) taurus

That worked well, except it come up with a Directory Not Found when using john. Well I guess this is an ash shell problem. Would prefer a Permission Denied or something, but it works with root but not john and that's the main thing. Thanks for your help! John