On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 05:43:03PM +0200, Deim �goston wrote:
> Hi all !
Hello!
> Since I deleted the buggy linuxconf and don't want to use webmin
> or any other GUI interface I have some questions.
> 1.) which config file should I edit if I want that all new users go to
> the librarians group and create a home directory under for them
> /home/librarians/
You could edit the /etc/default/useradd file, or you could use
the useradd command itself to change some of these values for
you. Editing the file works fine, however.
> 2.) If a user is a member of two different groups, like librarians and
> readers (the librarian is the primary/initial group) and creates a text
> file and the permissions of the file set to 660 will the members of
> the readers able to read and modify this file ?
No. The file would be owned by the user, and in the librarian group,
with no permission given to anyone else. They would have to remember
to chgrp or chmod the file after creation to give the "readers" access,
or you'll have to modify your group scheme.
> 3.) If I have a user and he has his own group but I want to change
> his group to librarians what should I do ? I tried the usermod -g
> librarians user_name but all of his files and subdirs has the same
> owner and group as before (username:username, not
> username:librarians)
I'd personally just use "vipw" and edit the password file to change the
group on the user I wanted..
ie:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
^ change this number to the group you want.
Hope this helps you out. As always, the views expressed here are MHO.
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