On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:38:54PM -0600, scott.list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| While on the subject, and since you are working on the chapter, is there a
| way to make all users in one group belong to another group with out
| explicitly adding each of their userids to the other groups line in
| /etc/group?
| 
| i.e. /etc/group:
| users::100:accounting  <- this did not work , tried it
| accounting::200:
| engr::300:
| 
| Bill's (and the other 200 folks in accounting) primary group (in passwd) is
| 200, but he/they need to be a member of users, too.

Not just wih /etc/group, no.

But you could keep an auxiliary file in some format and compute a flat
/etc/group file from that. Works just fine.
-- 
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        [EMAIL PROTECTED]    http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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