[fedora] Groups

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Sep 15 16:01:20 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> What about using your favorite text editor to edit /etc/group and add 
> the user to the group there?

That works, of course, but don't forget to also edit /etc/gshadow. (And
watch out for locking problems.) Generally, I think using 'gpasswd' is
cleaner.

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