Re: passwords in /etc/group
What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) IRIX and Linux (and HP-UX?) had a newgrp command for changing your current GID (eg, gid from id -g). I've forgotten, but I suppose newgrp used the group passwords if they were defined. Users could change their GID to work in different projects. I'm not sure why FreeBSD doesn't have the feature, but I suppose someone thought that the SUIDDIR feature was sufficient. But I don't know what it would hurt to have the feature which needn't be used or could easily be disabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: passwords in /etc/group
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) -Neither is it a forum for you to make silly snidy comments. -The above is perfectly readable. -And don't assume everyone is American and knows what the hell a Poetry 101 forum is (surely it should be Forum). And please don't begin an email with parenthetical comments. This is stylistically unforgiveable. You might care to know that in the language of your forefathers a blank line is often ommitted between paragraphs. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: passwords in /etc/group
Wow! An English right here on FreeBSD-Questions! On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) -Neither is it a forum for you to make silly snidy comments. -The above is perfectly readable. -And don't assume everyone is American and knows what the hell a Poetry 101 forum is (surely it should be Forum). And please don't begin an email with parenthetical comments. This is stylistically unforgiveable. You might care to know that in the language of your forefathers a blank line is often ommitted between paragraphs. Thanks. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: passwords in /etc/group
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:20:32PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Probably because no-one uses them :) What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: passwords in /etc/group
In the last episode (Nov 21), Sergey Matveychuk said: Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Try man 5 group, to get a more detailed description of the /etc/group file format. FreeBSD does not use the group password field. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
