Enemy Territory Permissions Problems

holymacaroni · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 63

ok, i emerged it and it installed the executable in /usr/games/bin/ as the file: et. well, i edited my /etc/group file and added the user name of my regular user account (bold) to the games::35: group so it looks as follows: games::35:bold

well, despite doing this i still can't gain access to ANYTHING belonging to the games group. everytime i try to do anything with said files i get a permission denied error:

~$ ls /opt/enemy-territory/
ls: /opt/enemy-territory/: Permission denied

did i forget to do something or what's going on here?

schutten · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:23 am Post subject:

did you type: "groups" to check if your account really is a member of the games group.
Usually you have to logout/login for changes to the /etc/group file to take effect.

holymacaroni · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 63

oh ok, thanks. yeah that was the problem. i guess i'm not used to logging out and logging back in since i haven't even had to reboot in ages. awesome.

schutten · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:58 am Post subject:

No thanks.
Whe're here to help each other, right?

Anyway, I know how you feel. I hardly ever login/logout; and really almost never reboot (kernel upgrades...).