On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Mike Westkamper wrote: > > I need to set up a number of users and assign them to a primary group. For > example, I am setting up a FC1 box as a CVS server. The approach I am using > is to set up a number of cvs users and want to assign their primary group as > CVSUSER. > > The GNOME applet doesn't seem to allow it. (add user / change properties) > And I have tried the traditional handtools but apparently there is someting > else that prevents adduser/etc from really working. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Mike I would use ACL to associate a group of users with access to a set of directories which is what I assume you want to do. see man acl -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx