Nick Guenther wrote on Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:21:40PM -0400: > On 10/28/06, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, it wouldn't be practical to manually edit /etc/group. [...] >> Also, er, call me dumb, but after rereading usermod(8), I really see >> no way to explicitly remove an user from a group... =( [...] > As a hack, could you write a short script to edit it and call that? cd /etc \ && sed '/^foogroup/s/baruser,*//' < group > group.new \ && mv group.new group This is a noop unless baruser is a member of foogroup, but it changes the /etc/group ctime even then. Hm. cd /etc \ && sed '/^foogroup/s/baruser,*//' < group > group.new \ ; diff group group.new \ && rm group.new \ && echo no change \ || mv group.new group
