Quoting Marc Lehmann (schm...@schmorp.de): > No, it would not, the user would be unchanged - the user could, for example, > still access all her files. > > Right *now*, groupmod makes all files that rely on the users group > inaccessible. > > Thats a much bigger change.
I wouldn't call that a "change". AFAIK, this has always been groupmod's behaviour. What you would like, from what I understand, is an option in groupmod to NOT change users' primary group when the modified group is the primary group for some users. That's perfectly understandable, for sure, but this is not a reason for changing the default behaviour of groupmod (principle of least surprise). > Right now, the utility of groupmod is severely diminished because it isn't > possible to modify the group database without ill sideeffect with it. > > In effect, this amounts to writing ones own groupmod. It's probably only a specific switch for groupmod that's needed in your case.
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