Entries in group shadow file

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:10:19PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> I'm setting up a server where one user is going to need access to
> files on other users.
[...]
> Is there a way to automagically sync the
>     somegroup:x:99:user1,user2
> from /etc/group to /etc/gshadow?

Sure. Instead of editing the file by hand, use the command-line tools:
groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, and the very useful but badly named gpasswd.
(That last one is what you use for adding and removing individual users from
groups.)

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