Message: 2 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:01:20 -0400 From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [fedora] Groups To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20040915160120.GB16738@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> ------------------------------ 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
