usermod

[Steve Buehler]

At 07:55 AM 3/30/2005, Caner Baydemir wrote:
>>I know you can use "usermod" on RedHat Linux to add a user to another 
>>group by typing:
>>usermod -G sam,frank steve
>>This would effectively add steve to the "frank" and "sam" group.  How do 
>>you remove them from those groups without editing the /etc/group file 
>>manually?  I can do:
>>usermod -G steve steve
>>That will remove him from "sam" and "frank" groups but would add steve to 
>>his own group so the /etc/group file would look like:
>>steve:x:590:steve
>>instead of just:
>>steve:x:590:
>>For the life of me, I can't figure this one out.  Does anybody know?
>
>try the gpasswd command. Example:
>
>adding user:
>gpasswd -a sam steve
>
>deleting user:
>gpasswd -d sam steve
>
>simple isn't it? it's writing both /etc/group and /etc/gpasswd file

Thanks.  I will look into this.

Steve