[gentoo-user] /etc/group administration questions, caching, references

2004-01-15 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi there folks. This is a bit embarrasing as I should already know this, but alas, I don't. I've googled a bit for it and read the reference manuals I've got... group membership by group reference I want users u1 and u2 to be members of groups g1 and g2. In /etc/group I'd like to use something

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/group administration questions, caching, references

2004-01-15 Thread Greg Bolshaw
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 16:04, Jimmy Rosen wrote: I want users u1 and u2 to be members of groups g1 and g2. In /etc/group I'd like to use something like: g1::1234:u1,u2 g2::12345:g1,u3,u4 (users belonging to g1 should have access to g2 as well through inclusion of g1 in g2 member list) But I

[gentoo-user] /etc/group

2003-09-02 Thread Davide Brini
I've accidentally deleted the files /etc/group and /etc/group- (yes, that was really a BIG distraction). I never added or removed groups, so I suppose the file was the one created by gentoo installation. I've recreated some groups (root, users and a few others), but now I have the need to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/group

2003-09-02 Thread Christopher Fisk
My request is: can someone send his group file so I can extract what I'm missing (if this is not too big a security risk? :-)) root::0:root bin::1:root,bin,daemon daemon::2:root,bin,daemon sys::3:root,bin,adm adm::4:root,adm,daemon tty::5: disk::6:root,adm lp::7:lp mem::8: kmem::9:

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/group

2003-09-02 Thread Davide Brini
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[gentoo-user] /etc/group modifications [WAS] cron and crontab

2003-08-21 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:16, oleander wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:00:06 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use cron as an unpriveleged user, that user must be in the cron group in /etc/group. Once that is done, logout and login again to update permissions, after which

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/group modifications [WAS] cron and crontab

2003-08-21 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:54:45PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:16, oleander wrote: it's kind of silly but you could do: % sg cron -c 'crontab -e' from the current shell after being added to cron group. that prevents a logout at least. or newgrp cron, too.