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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers User groups Post 302073111 by thestevew on Wednesday 10th of May 2006 08:41:25 AM
Old 05-10-2006
Looks like you need tight security! To make this work you would need to set up each of your users with the appropriate pair of groups and make sure that the document directories (and any files in public directories) are owned by a user in the appropriate groups and only allow access to the owner and group.

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listusers(1)						      General Commands Manual						      listusers(1)

NAME
listusers - display user login data SYNOPSIS
groups] logins] DESCRIPTION
The command displays data concerning user logins. The output shows the user login and the comment field value (for example, user name, location). The default displays data about all user logins. Options The command supports the following options: Display only users who have groups, as their primary group. Use with the option. Display only users who have groups, as their supplementary group. Use with the option. Display all users belonging to groups, sorted by login. A comma separated list specifies multiple groups. Display the requested logins. A comma separated list specifies multiple logins. Display only users belonging to the specified repository, either for NIS or users. A user login has a UID of 100 or greater. When the and options are combined, a user login is only displayed once, even though the login may belong to multiple specified groups. EXAMPLES
List all user logins. List all user logins in the group and the users removing all duplicates. List all users who have as their primary group. List all users who have as their supplementary group. List only local user logins. List only NIS user logins. FILES
SEE ALSO
passwd(1), logins(1M), group(4), passwd(4). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
listusers(1)
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