On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 23:52, A.J. Bonnema wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple access I would like to solve. Reading the RedHat > documentation on users and groups didn't help sufficiently. Maybe one of > you guys, sysadmins, could help? > > I'm running a up to date Fedora core 1 (no test packages). > > The problem is: > > 1. I have a user let's say john with two gid's: one for john and one for > proj. The group john is his primary group. > > 2. I also have a directory owned by user paul and he want everyone in > group proj to be able to read and write and create directories and files > in his directory /project. So (using the reference guide from red hat) > he creates a directory /project and has the admin do the following > sequence of commands: > > /usr/sbin/groupadd proj > chown -R paul.proj /project > /usr/bin/gpasswd -a john proj > chmod 2775 /project # create proj group groupadd proj # make an administrator own the root dir. paul.proj is also fine... chown -R root.proj /project # make permissions inherit to children... chmod g+rwxs /project # root can change john's group membership like this usermod -G proj john # which should be equivalent to this but I've had trouble with it gpasswd -a john proj # in theory, this would make Paul proj's administrator gpasswd -A paul proj # to verify john was added where he belongs: grep john /etc/groups > Now I have 2 questions: > 1. Is there any way, to have all groups a user is member of, effective > simultaneously? Yes, logout and login. Group membership only becomes effective at login. > 2. > How can john change his primary group on the commandline? newgrp proj -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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