[fedora] Groups

[Øyvind Lode]

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From: Øyvind Lode [mailto:o-lode at online.no] 
Sent: 15. september 2004 23:46
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Subject: RE: [fedora] Groups


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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:01:20 -0400
From: Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Subject: Re: [fedora] Groups
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> What about using your favorite text editor to edit /etc/group and add
> the user to the group there?

: That works, of course, but don't forget to also edit /etc/gshadow. (And
watch out for locking problems.) Generally, I :think using 'gpasswd' is
cleaner.

-- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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: Hi

: Hi again

: Using useradd -g users john seems the easiest way.
: But A huge stepback is that it removes other group membership of user
john. I wanted to add john to users...

: I got a reply telling me to read the man pages of div useful commands so
that will probably give me the anser how to add : john to groups without
removing him from existing groups.

: I suppose if I edit /etc/groups, /etc/gshadow, /etc/gpasswd etc I will
escape this problem because I then just add users : to john without removing
other groups...

: Using a graphical tool in GNOME or KDE is also a good idea but not for my
config since I don't run X :)

: Øyvind

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A quick look in man usermod told me:
# usermod -G users john

This command added john to users without replacing his existing group
membership (login group) which is john.

Please correct me if I'm way off...

Øyvind