A method which includes primary groups. Assumes you have the unix "logins" command. Script allows for more than one line in /etc/group for the same group (which can happen).
I'm using SAM to add users on an HP and they're adding fine. But in /etc/group it only lists the group names. It's not adding the users in there. Is there a way to have them put in there without going into SAM and modifying the group and adding them? I guess what I want to happen is when I add... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Does anyone know if there is a maximum limit to the number of users that can be assigned to a group. I currently have on a production server 900+ users in 1 group. I know some of these users are no longer valid as we only have 500 employees and not all employees use this application.
... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to write a Unix script which can send an automatic email to the group when my job is completed.I'm trying the following
Mail -s "test" <groupname> << EOD
>Completed
>EOD
With this i'm not able to send an email to group..Any ideas?
Thanks in Advance (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can any one tell me is it possible to setup private key public key pairing(SSH ) for a group of users , instead of setting it up for individual users ?
Eg:
Say i have 3 users A,B and C and i want the users to connect to SERVER1. instead of generating public private keys for each user , is... (3 Replies)
Im trying to put all the groups in into a variable called $GROUP, however in /etc/group there are also lotsa users. And the GID of group can differ as it can be set, this there is no specific range, how can i put all the names of the groups into that variable? (3 Replies)
Hello
They have ordered to me that makes several small utilities in C/C++ for the servants, among them a small program in C/C++ to generate a file HTML with the groups of that servant and in addition that is the corresponding users of that group.
For example of a group:
Group: Sys Members:... (2 Replies)
Oracle Linux 6.5
oracle user's primary group is oinstall and its secondary group is dba,asmdba,asmoper.
For the below created directory, I want the users belonging to dba,asmdba,asmoper to be able create, read and execute files but not delete them. How can I achieve that.
If I use 775 as... (5 Replies)
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group
GROUP(5) Linux Programmer's Manual GROUP(5)NAME
group - user group file
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/group file is a text file that defines the groups on the system. There is one entry per line, with the following format:
group_name:password:GID:user_list
The fields are as follows:
group_name the name of the group.
password the (encrypted) group password. If this field is empty, no password is needed.
GID the numeric group ID.
user_list a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas.
FILES
/etc/group
BUGS
As the 4.2BSD initgroups(3) man page says: No-one seems to keep /etc/group up-to-date.
SEE ALSO login(1), newgrp(1), getgrent(3), getgrnam(3), passwd(5)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2010-10-21 GROUP(5)