Re: Users, groups and directory access

From: A.J. Bonnema (abonnema_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 05/05/04

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    Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:27:14 +0200
To: dave@webaugur.com, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    David L Norris wrote:
    > # create proj group
    > groupadd proj
    >
    > # make an administrator own the root dir. paul.proj is also fine...
    > chown -R root.proj /project
    >
    > # make permissions inherit to children...
    > chmod g+rwxs /project
    >
    > # root can change john's group membership like this
    > usermod -G proj john
    >
    >
    > # which should be equivalent to this but I've had trouble with it
    > gpasswd -a john proj
    >
    > # in theory, this would make Paul proj's administrator
    > gpasswd -A paul proj
    >
    >
    > # to verify john was added where he belongs:
    > grep john /etc/groups
    >
    Hi David,

    Your answer did it: it works!

    However, because I had done both the usermod-thing and the
    gpasswd-thing, I'm not sure whether one or both work correctly: the
    logoff did it (I had to logoff from X though).

    Thanks for your instructive mail.
    Still not a sysadmin, but at least I start to understand groups.

    Guus. 

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