On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 05:45:47PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > Today's questions are all about group, group-, and /etc/group.org, those > fun little files that live in /etc. I checked the archives, but came up > with nothing useful. > > First question: Why are there three of these files? I thought there > should only be /etc/group. (?)
The other two are backups, created by various tools that edit /etc/group. I forget exactly what at the moment. (.org stands for "original", I think.) > The next question is a bit more involved, perhaps: > Can we nest groups in Debian or in GNU/Linux in general? > -My guess would be "yes" but my experimentation is pretty much > indicating "no". No, sorry. This isn't possible in any variant of Unix to my knowledge. > I logged out and back in, btw, which should have forced the change (or > am I mistaken?). That would be sufficient if the change worked. ;) You can also use newgrp(1) to affect only the current shell. > My config currently has this user account explicitly added to audio > and dip (and what is that group for, btw?) The dip group controls access to dial-up PPP accounts. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
