Entries in group shadow file

From: Al Sparks (data345_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/05/05

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    I'm setting up a server where one user is going to need access to
    files on other users.

    I'm in the process of setting group permissions and making entries in
    the /etc/group file.

    One thing I noticed when I used
       # vigr
    is that if I made a change to /etc/group, it gave me the option of
    editing the shadow group file.

    I'm basically adding users to groups, where,
       somegroup:x:99:user1,user2

    The shadow group file already does have users as members of various
    groups starting out from a fresh build.

    So my questions are, what is the downside of adding a user under a
    group in the /etc/group file but not /etc/gshadow (the shadow file)?

    Is there a way to automagically sync the
        somegroup:x:99:user1,user2
    from /etc/group to /etc/gshadow?

    I figure manually editing both files will increase the risk of
    mistakes.
      === Al 

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