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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Starting up with a different user Post 17224 by xNYx on Tuesday 12th of March 2002 11:03:47 AM
Old 03-12-2002
great info....

when i installed rh linux 7.2 with the dns server.
it created a named user and group.

when i did a ps aux it shows named running with named as the owner, how is that possible?

named group id is below 100, could that be it?

thanks again
 

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GROUPDEL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       GROUPDEL(8)

NAME
groupdel - Delete a group SYNOPSIS
groupdel group DESCRIPTION
The groupdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to group. The named group must exist. You must manually check all filesystems to insure that no files remain with the named group as the file group ID. CAVEATS
You may not remove the primary group of any existing user. You must remove the user before you remove the group. FILES
/etc/group - group information /etc/gshadow - secure group information SEE ALSO
chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), groupadd(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), userdel(8), usermod(8) AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com) GROUPDEL(8)
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