On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I had to add some users to a remote site. > X traffic from there is way to slow to > use system-config-users. > > I got around it by doing > > for nam in user1 user2 user3 user4 > do > groupadd $nam > useradd -g $nam $nam > echo $nam | stdin -- passwd $nam > done you don't actually need to add their user-private groups first -- that's the default. > (Passwords were actually set to something else) > > But now I realize they should be in group x > (I don't want to change their original group, > just add them to group x). Normally I would > use system-config-users and add them but > the x traffic is too slow. I am not sure how > to do it without X. Is it simply a matter > of editing /etc/passwd and adding the > additional groups? Or perhaps editing > /etc/group and adding ,user1,user2 .... > to the entry for group x? Is there anything > else that would need to be done? $ man usermod rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
