[TriLUG] stupid user management question

Blackburn, Marvin Marvin.Blackburn at glenraven.com
Fri Nov 19 07:32:10 EST 2004


Many thanks.  This is exactly what I needed. 

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> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin
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> Subject: [TriLUG] stupid user management question
> 
> I am new to the shadow password file processing and Have a question.
> How do I properly change a users primary group.
> 
> Can I just enter it into the /etc/passwd file?
> How do the changes get propogated to /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> I am running redhat as 2.1
> 
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> Marvin Blackburn
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