Users Groups

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> 	Simple question.
> 
> in the /etc/group file, have something like this
> 
> Group1:userA,userB,userC
> Group2:userD
> 
> If Some Group2 is a subset of Group1, can I put this in
> 
> Group2:userD,Group1

No, that won't work.  Group1 in your second example would be assumed to
be a user name (which it might well be).

Nalin