[Trilug-ontopic] sysadmin questions
Richard O. Hammer
rhammer at FastMail.fm
Fri Jun 11 19:30:48 EDT 2010
Hi,
I'm trying to set up some linux servers and have questions which are probably
basic to most of you. Please let me know if this is not the appropriate place
to ask such questions.
What is the relationship between the user's group as designated in these two
places:
1. in /etc/passwd in the fourth field in the line for a given user, and
2. in /etc/group, listed in the last field in the line for a given group?
I've created a test user (useradd -g testgroup testuser). Now I see the group
number for testgroup listed in /etc/passwd on the testuser line. But I don't
see "testuser" in /etc/group on the testgroup line.
Can a user belong to several groups? What command does the trick?
Can a group belong to a group? What command does this trick?
Perhaps this is amusing: On running "man group" I get a man page, evidently
dated December 1992, which says (among other things)
BUGS As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: No-one seems to keep /etc/group
up-to-date.
I'm using CentOS5 on a server rented from RIMUhosting.com.
Thank you,
Rich Hammer
Hillsborough
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