removing a user from a group

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Jun 5 03:11:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:42:00AM +0200, Oliver Leitner wrote:
> | gpasswd
> or just edit the /etc/group file, and remove the user from the group.

It's safer to use gpasswd, since it takes care of locking, and a typo or
accidental editor command is less likely to mess up your whole live system.
(Not that the latter is really very likely.)

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