On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:10:19PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > I'm setting up a server where one user is going to need access to > files on other users. [...] > Is there a way to automagically sync the > somegroup:x:99:user1,user2 > from /etc/group to /etc/gshadow? Sure. Instead of editing the file by hand, use the command-line tools: groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, and the very useful but badly named gpasswd. (That last one is what you use for adding and removing individual users from groups.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
