Users, groups and directory access
A.J. Bonnema
abonnema at xs4all.nl
Wed May 5 13:31:15 UTC 2004
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:30:07AM -0500, David L Norris wrote:
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>># root can change john's group membership like this
>>usermod -G proj john
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> This is bad because it *replaces* the current list of groups. If john was
> previously a member of 'staff' or 'proj2', that would be removed. This is
> why gpasswd -a is usually better.
Do you mean, only one group will result from this command? I mean, will
the primary group be replaced too? I executed this command and after
groups I got: john, as the only group. After logoff/logon I got: john
proj, as the groups output.
However, I'll do some experiments on a fake user to try this one out.
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>>>How can john change his primary group on the commandline?
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>>newgrp proj
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> But this is basically obsolete -- there's almost never a reason to do this.
>
Then I wonder what the use of a primary group is: is there any
preference in the system for the primary group? In what circomstance?
Guus -- never too late to learn --
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A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
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