Re: group file user name list entries

2002-06-15 Thread Scott
Hi Tony: > That's true for primary groups, but if Bill needed to access files owned > by some other group, then you would have to add him to that group in > /etc/group. Then he would be able to access files owned by his primary > group (GID 500) and files owned by whatever other groups he's a mem

Re: group file user name list entries

2002-06-14 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-Jun-2002/12:33 -0500, "scott.list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have found that ommiting the group's comma separated user name list >seems to have no effect. > >My question is what uses or looks at the username list appended to the >group li

group file user name list entries

2002-06-14 Thread scott.list
I have found that ommiting the group's comma separated user name list seems to have no effect. My question is what uses or looks at the username list appended to the group line in the group file i.e.: engr::500:bill,tom,jim acct::600: fact::700: ? It looks to me that as long as bill, tom, an