I get a usermod error when I run the addgsusers.sh script. Why?
The addgsusers.sh script has a dependency on the passwd package from Debian Etch, whereas your system is Sarge. This has been corrected in this modified addgsusers.sh script. We recommend that you download this version and use it to replace the one in /usr/local/bin on your Bio-Linux machine. • I want to set up my own permissions scheme for my users. How can I undo the customisations applied to GeneSpring on Bio-Linux? 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,