Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-23 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +0100]: >> All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown >> (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) > >that's -2 btw ;) Yeah, well I'd rather kn

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-22 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:11:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.1646 +0100]: | > | > All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown | > | > (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) | > | | > | that's -2

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.1646 +0100]: > | > All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown > | > (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) > | > | that's -2 btw ;) > > Not if you use unsigned integers :-). pfff. cat << EOF >

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-22 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:29:36AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +0100]: | > All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown | > (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) | | that's -2 btw ;)

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0848 +0100]: > All of the users on a Debian system have UID >= 1000. For some unknown > (to me) reason, the user `nobody' has a UID of 65534 (or -1) that's -2 btw ;) -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ ec

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-22 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, dman wrote: >On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:59:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >| Hi, >| I'm trying to find a way to >| add all my users to a group. >| Is there a simple command to do this? Simple if you can copy and paste into a file. >Unfortunately this method will catch

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:59:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to find a way to | add all my users to a group. | Is there a simple command to do this? # for USER in `cat /etc/passwd | sed "s,:.*$,,"` ; do adduser $USER ; done Unfortunately this method will catch all syst

adding all users to group

2002-01-21 Thread mike
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to add all my users to a group. Is there a simple command to do this? Thanks Mike