On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, walter harms <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 17.02.2015 12:59, schrieb Laszlo Papp: >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for something like usermod -g on desktop. Is it possible >> to achieve this feature? > > I have no idea why you need "usermod -g" (i assume adding a group) > i use > vi /etc/group
1) If you have no idea, you can read the email subject: Changing the primary group 2) Primary groups ends up /etc/passwd, not /etc/group. Correspondingly, it is the wrong place to look at. >> There are workarounds like adding a group and then removing the >> previous, etc, but it is suboptimal. > > mmmg, changing the primary group is changing the id in the 4th field. > see: man 5 passwd I know, but that is not the point of the question. 1) Editing files manually are bad habit without avoiding race, etc. It is also error-prone. You could say the same for pretty much any passwd and group related issues that you can add a group manually. 2) It is not enough to just look up man 5 passwd. Eventually, you would need to get the group id out of the groupname. I definitely do not want to supply raw group ids. That is mad. :-) Since it was not clear, I will try to clarify: is this feature already available in busybox via one-pass? My suggested workaround is still nicer than editing files manually like that in my opinion, but it is two-pass. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
