[fedora] Groups

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Wed Sep 15 16:04:13 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

If you're looking to do it with a text editor, the vipw(8) and vigr(8)
commands are handy.

Nalin





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