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    Re: Help with users and grps in unix... —Matthew Miller
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Help with users and grps in unix... —Dan Boger
   (...) 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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