user management questions

[Schott, Erik J Mr ANOSC/FCBS]

Hi Marvin.  Yes, you COULD directly edit /etc/passwd, but that is far from
the recommended means to change the user's primary group.  Use, instead,
usermod -g <gid> <username>.  These changes are not propagated to
/etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, but propagated to /etc/passwd by the inner
workings of the useradd binary.

HTH.

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:57 PM
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Subject: user management questions


I am new to the shadow password file processing and Have a question.
How do I properly change a users primary group.

Can I just enter it into the /etc/passwd file?
How do the changes get propogated to /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow?

Any help would be appreciated.
I am running redhat as 2.1

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George  

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