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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To provide restricted access to certain user's on linux box Post 302229482 by vish_indian on Wednesday 27th of August 2008 05:01:29 AM
Old 08-27-2008
Above code is to be executed using root login. Group must exist, if it doesn't you need to create that first.

All users are listed in /etc/passwd file with uid > 500.


I suggest you study a bit more about linux/unix first before executing commands as root.
 

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