[cobalt-users] admin / ftp / pico

["Tim M. Muldoon" <muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

At great peril I decided to telnet in to my server as su - and use pico to
adjust the group file so admin was not a member of every site on my server.

the lines read...
site23:x:134:admin;ovitinc
so I deleted the offending admin and semi colon to read
site23:x:134:ovitinc
hit control x, and saved the changes, and looked to confirm the changes.

I have three questions...
1. One of the lines in group reads...
site-adm:x:111:admin,cnewell,otrveye...etc. listing all of the usernames on
the server. Do I need to make any changes to this line? Or, is this the line
I was supposed to edit instead of each individual site line?

2. Since then everything seems to be running  r e a l l y  s l o w  and I am
still denied access. Do I need to re-start anything for these changes to
take effect? .

3. I read somewhere, after the fact, in a CGI message board...
'If you use pico, you should become used to calling it with the -w option
(type : pico -w filename) to disable word-wrap. You could mess up scripts
that don`t tolerate word wrap in command sequences.' Does this apply to
editing the group file?

Thanks in advance,

Tim
muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx

P.S. I have a added a link to 'Netiquette Guidelines RFC 1855' on
www.raqresources.com by a newbie - for newbies