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Hi all, Is there a way to check which users are members of a grp? Also, can a member of a grp (not root) add other members to the grp? For example, I want to add "nobody" to "bldesign" so that my web scripts can have write access to a directory set (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) to see who's in a group: grep "groupname" /etc/group to see what groups a user belongs to: id "user" to add users to a group, you have to be able to edit the /etc/group file - which (on any sane system), only root can do. sorry... (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks, Dan! Will adding "nobody" to group "bldesign" make it possible for my php script to write to directories set at mod 775? I'd like to know for sure before I ask support if they'll do that for me. Thanks, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (assuming that the directory is group owned by dlsesign) - yup, that'll work. just don't forget that _anyone_ that has cgi access on that server will be able to read/write to that directory... On a shared box, that may mean 100s of people. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I guess I'll risk that. It's still safer than just using mod 777, right? Thanks for all the help, --Bram (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, check out the 'gpasswd' command from the linux shadow-utils suite. This allows non-root users to be defined as group administrators, and these people can add and remove people from their groups. (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) sure enough, that'll work - I never knew of that :) Of course, it's an suid proggie, so that's always something to be wary of, even when you can't avoid it... Thanks for the tip! (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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