On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 at 21:53 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:46:20 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> So, in /etc, there are group and group-, which seem to be identical >> except that group- has much more restrictive permissions. >> >> What's group- for? What happens if I edit /etc/group directly and >> don't copy the changes over to group- right away? > > I believe that group- is the minus 1 version of group. > > If you have shadowing installed, which you probably have, then you > should use groupadd, groupdel and groupmod to manipulate groups (you > need to get your changes into gshadow as well as group).
I've never used group passwords, but I wouldn't think that adding a user to a group would affect the shadow files? I guess I need to read up on this stuff a bit. By the way, below is a description of the problem that prompted this inquiry: I ran 'usermod -G' last night and couldn't figure out why I apparently lost several of my groups. Turns out, of course, that -G doesn't append, it replaces. Mystery solved. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
