I'm setting up a server where one user is going to need access to
files on other users.
I'm in the process of setting group permissions and making entries in
the /etc/group file.
One thing I noticed when I used
# vigr
is that if I made a change to /etc/group, it gave me the option of
editing the shadow group file.
I'm basically adding users to groups, where,
somegroup:x:99:user1,user2
The shadow group file already does have users as members of various
groups starting out from a fresh build.
So my questions are, what is the downside of adding a user under a
group in the /etc/group file but not /etc/gshadow (the shadow file)?
Is there a way to automagically sync the
somegroup:x:99:user1,user2
from /etc/group to /etc/gshadow?
I figure manually editing both files will increase the risk of
mistakes.
=== Al
