2. What is the linux comman to set ORACLE user with primary group OINSTALL and DBA as it secondary group ?
Usernames and group names are case-significant. The answer to your question (though not relevant because it will change nothing on your system). This is an academic answer and not to be typed:
Hi I have a user zak and
4 groups:-
oracle
stats
data
archive
I want user zak to be part of the oracle and stats group but not be able to view,list anything in data and archive. Also anyone in the data and archive group should not be able to view,list anything in oracle and stats....... (3 Replies)
hi eveyone i've recently requested my unix admin to create a userid for 2 groups. He created the id and i can see it by grep "id" /etc/group.
But when i login with that id into unix and try to cd that group it says permission denied. something like cd /groupname -- permission denied
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Hello
A couple of weeks ago, I added a user to an AIX 5.3 system.
I go to add one today, and it appears that when creating a user in smit, I cannot see any groups.
No primary groups
No Group set
No Admin Groups
The /etc/group and etc/secuity/group files seem to be intact.
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What's the difference between groups and id-a.
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Hi
I see that I can use umask to set the default permissions on files created by a script like so -
umask u=rwx,g=rwx,o=
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groupdel
groupdel(1M)groupdel(1M)NAME
groupdel - delete a group from the system
SYNOPSIS
group
DESCRIPTION
The command deletes a group from the system by removing the appropriate entry from the file.
The command must be used with the group argument which is the name of the group to be deleted. The name consists of a string of printable
characters that may not include a colon or newline
Refer to usergroupname(5) to understand the functionality changes with the Numeric User Group Name feature.
Options
The command uses the following option:
Exercise the safe delete feature. That is, if the gid of the
primary group of any system user matches the gid of group, then group is not deleted.
NIS
The command is aware of NIS user entries. Only local groups may be deleted with Attempts to delete an NIS group will result in an error.
NIS groups must be administered from the NIS server. If is used on a system where NIS is installed, it may fail with the error
(return value 6), if the group specified is an NIS group (see group(4)).
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
No error.
Invalid command syntax.
Invalid argument supplied to an option.
group
does not exist.
Cannot modify the
file.
file or
file busy. Another command may be modifying the file.
Unable to open
or file is non-existent.
group
is busy or cannot delete the primary group.
EXAMPLES
Delete the group from the file if it exists:
WARNINGS
Because many users may try to write the file simultaneously, a password locking mechanism was devised. If this locking fails after subse-
quent retrying, terminates.
FILES SEE ALSO users(1), groupadd(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), group(4), usergroupname(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE groupdel(1M)