Re: Changing primary user group

From: Aaron Konstam (akonstam_at_trinity.edu)
Date: 03/30/04

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    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Mike Westkamper wrote:
    >
    > I need to set up a number of users and assign them to a primary group. For
    > example, I am setting up a FC1 box as a CVS server. The approach I am using
    > is to set up a number of cvs users and want to assign their primary group as
    > CVSUSER.
    >
    > The GNOME applet doesn't seem to allow it. (add user / change properties)
    > And I have tried the traditional handtools but apparently there is someting
    > else that prevents adduser/etc from really working.
    >
    > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
    >
    > Mike
    I would use ACL to associate a group of users with access to a set of
    directories which is what I assume you want to do.
    see man acl

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