On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:53 AM ToddAndMargo via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 2020-07-06 06:00, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:48 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> On 2020-07-05 21:59, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 1:22 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>>>> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> libvirt:x:977:root:@users
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure
>>>>
>>>> 1) That you can use netgroup notation when you're (presumably) not
>>>> using nis/nisplus/ldap?
>>>>
>>>> 2) That you can nest a netgroup in a group? I've only seen/used
>>>> netgroups used in "/etc/group" on a separate line, eg
>>>>"+@netusers", to include the "netusers" netgroup using
>>>> "nss_compat".
>>>
>>> It turn off the pol kit prompt
>>
>> Are you that it's not something else that's "turning off" polkit?
>>
>> I checked the "group(5)" man pages on my NetBSD and OpenBSD systems,
>> on my Linux laptop, and in Solaris 8 man-page PDF. The first three
>> describe the fourth field as a list of members and the members are
>> users. Solaris even calls the fourth field "user-list". None of them
>> even imply that a group name can be added to the list, with or
>> without prepending "@".
>>
>> I created a group "todd", added myself to it, added "@todd" to the
>> "root" group in "/etc/{group,gshadow}" (I couldn't find an
>> executable that would allow me to add a group to a group), and ran
>> "grpck -r":
>>
>> # grpck -r
>> group root: no user @todd
>> delete member '@todd'? No
>> shadow group root: no user @todd
>> delete member '@todd'? No
>> grpck: no changes
>> root rebekah /root
>> #
>>
>> "grpck" expects usernames as group members.
>
> Taking in and taking out @users was repeatable.
>
> And I used the universal configuration tool, know as "vi".

"vigr" is the right tool, given that there isn't a dedicated
executable to change "/etc/group" indirectly for your use-case.


> But what I have noticed was in the man page, they state
> that the users list is comma separated. I used a colon.
>
> Try it with vi and a colon.

I used "vi" in the form of "vigr" (the group equivalent of "vipw").

A colon?! That means that you're adding a fifth field.


> Also, it would help if you showed me your line in /etc/groups

I don't see why but here goes

$ getent group todd
todd:x:1001:th
$ getent group root
root:x:0:@todd
$ id
uid=1000(th) gid=1000(th) groups=1000(th),10(wheel),1001(todd)
$
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