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I want to set up my own permissions scheme for my users. How can I undo the customisations applied to GeneSpring on Bio-Linux?

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I want to set up my own permissions scheme for my users. How can I undo the customisations applied to GeneSpring on Bio-Linux?

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The basis of the permissions customisations on Bio-Linux is a wrapper script that is run when you execute GeneSpring. If you remove the wrapper script at /usr/local/bin/genespring and replace it with a link to the GeneSpring binary at /home/db/SilconGenetics/GeneSpring/data/GeneSpring, then GeneSpring will run without checking for membership of the gsusers user group, without setting group ownership to gsusers, and files created will have the default permissions of 755. That is, everyone on the system can see the files; no-one but the owner can alter them. Alternatively, if you wish to have the same permissions setup as is the default for GeneSpring on Bio-Linux, but want to use a group name other than gsusers, you can edit the script at /usr/local/bin/genespring, replacing instances of “gsusers” with your preferred group name. It is also easy to change the default permissions set on files created during a GeneSpring session. If, for example, you would like people in the gsusers group

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