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Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:14:50 GMT
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:08:23PM +0000, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> 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 at 775. Will that work? Thanks,
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...
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
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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)
| | | Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
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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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| | Help with users and grps in unix...
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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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