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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adding root user to a group Post 87294 by zazzybob on Saturday 22nd of October 2005 02:21:31 AM
Old 10-22-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowtorch
This will add beoper to the list of groups that root is already a member of.
I don't think so... look at the man page....

Quote:
-G group,[...]
A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same restrictions as the group given with the -g option. If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group
Hence, the user will be, I assume, removed from all groups except their primary group and the beoper group.

I would just go and hack at the /etc/group file, and tack "root" onto the end of the beoper line (comma seperated with the other users listed).

Cheers
ZB
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

groups

groups(1)							   User Commands							 groups(1)

NAME

       groups - print group membership of user

SYNOPSIS

       groups [user...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  command groups prints on standard output the groups to which you or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group
       specified in  /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in  /etc/group. Note that  /etc/passwd specifies the numerical ID (gid)
       of the group. The groups command converts gid to the group name in the output.

EXAMPLES

       The output takes the following form:

	      example% groups tester01 tester02
	      tester01 : staff
	      tester02 : staff
	      example%

FILES

       /etc/passwd

       /etc/group

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Sep 1992 							 groups(1)
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