On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:22 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote: > This is a multipart question, > > 1. I have discovered the groupadd command to create a new group on my > FC3 server, what command do I use to add users to that group -- I need > to do it from the command line because some of the users I must add are > Active Directory users from samba, and the only way that I have found to > make things in linux recognize them is to supply the UID through command > line (commands like chown and chgrp). This appears to be because there > is no user in linux, only the ones that are being authenticated against > the AD domain server. > > What I need to accomplish is this: > > I have a folder in the website called attend (it's a folder to put our > attendance reports in so that the teachers can view them) > > Right now, its owned by MCASCHOOL\TIMHOLEMS (uid 15000) the group is > apache (thereby giving the webserver access to it) > > I need to add an active directory user (MCASCHOOL\HGERM) (uid 15068) to > the apache group, or alternatively create a different group that > includes the apache user and that user as well as a couple others, so > that they can publish to it etc. ---- useradd or adduser you probably shouldn't be doing that at all but using winbindd - see samba documentation at <http://www.samba.org/docs> Craig
