Group Permission

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:45:42 -0700 (MST)


Am 11. Jul, 2002 schwätzte Carl Parrish so:

> Right I add *users* all the time. Now I'm trying to add a group into a
> group. I "guess" I might be able to use the groupID to add it into another
> group. I'm pretty sure that back in the days when I used webmin I was
> able to do this. Now I'm trying to get closer to the config files and I'm
> trying to figure out how to do it right inside of /etc/group.

Get familiar with groupadd, groupmod and groupdel. Same three utils for
users as well.

groupadd cvs
usermod -G cvs fred

Or for multiple people:

groupadd cvs
for i in fred anke georg
	usermod -G cvs $i
done

ciao,

der.hans
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