can't run games with user in games group

maor · Guru Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 323

user in games group but still when trying to run games i've emerged via portage i can't when trying to view the directory of the game i get

/usr/games/bin: Permission denied

Cosmin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject:

You'll have to logout and log back in.

maor · Guru Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 323

already tried that no changing at all ,so i checked the group file to be sure that the user belong to the games group and no problem their.

i'm a bit clueless on what cause such a problem (user in group can't view the files who belong that group).

denials · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:49 am Post subject: group and group-

On my 2004.0 system (PIII-800 Mobility laptop, Radeon Mobility video) I found that I had to change both /etc/group and /etc/group- (the latter, I believe, is a shadow group listing).

That allowed me to run the games in /usr/games/bin/ -- however, they crash immediately upon startup.

If I run the games as root, they run just fine. Argh. I haven't run into this situation before.