> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig White > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:29 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Groups and AD Groups etc > > 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 > [Tim Holmes] Hi Craig: I am using winbind, but it does not seem to resolve the text style names -- its possible I have it set up wrong TIM
