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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support rm -rf issues Post 302470352 by flekzout on Tuesday 9th of November 2010 09:40:48 PM
Old 11-09-2010
what type of account do you use? besides that if you use root it should not be prompted with that since -f stands for Force. hm.. can you give more details?
 

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

NAME
groupmod - modify a group entry SYNOPSIS
groupmod [-D binddn] [-P path] [-g gid [-o]] [-p password] [-A user] [-R user] [--service service] [--help] [-v] [--usage] group DESCRIPTION
groupmod modifies a group entry using the values specified on the command line. OPTIONS
-g, --gid gid Force the new group ID to be the given number. This value must be positive and unique. The group of any file owned by the old group must be changed manually. -o, --non-unique Allow duplicate (non-unique) group IDs. -p, --password password Set the encrypted password as returned by crypt(3) as the new group password. -A, --add-user user Add the user account to the specified group. -R, --remove-user user Remove the user account from the specified group. -D, --binddn binddn Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory. The user will be prompted for a password for simple authentica- tion. -P, --path path The group file is located below the specified directory path. groupmod will use this file, not /etc/group. --service service Modify the group from a special directory. The default is files, but ldap is also valid. --help Print a list of valid options with a short description. --usage Print a short list of valid options. -v, --version Print the version number and exit. FILES
/etc/group - group account information SEE ALSO
login.defs(5), group(5), groupadd(8), groupmod(8) AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> pwdutils April 2004 groupmod(8)
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