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Re: Help with users and grps in unix...
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:26:36 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.%StopSpammers%org
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Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
> 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.
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.
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Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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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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