thanks all, the gpasswd command worked perfectly and methyl, thanks, you are right i should run pwck and grpck before hand, however you are wrong about the 'usermod -G' command above as that works perfectly well. I believe -G is for suplimentary groups not primary so all is good. The man page confirms this ...
I'm kinda new to unix programming so bear with me...
I'm running a script prompting a user for an existing user and group and want to be able to validate if they valid.
Is there any code available?
Any help or push in the right direction would help.
Thank you, (2 Replies)
im trying to get an ARP readout using the command 'arp -a'... but the command doesnt exist in Fedora Core 6 - IPv6.... is there an equivalent command? (4 Replies)
Hi,
Another problem, here is my code
#!/bin/sh
dir='/opt/apps/script/CSV'
datadir='/opt/apps/script/data'
while : ; do
ls -1rt $dir/*.csv > /dev/null 2>&1
if ;then
cp $datadir/weekly.txt $dir/weekly.csv
else
exit 0
fi
done (10 Replies)
I tried a few ways to resolve this using a bash script w/ a loop, no luck.
File1: roughly 6,000 account numbers such as:
1111
1512
1113
123
I also have a dozen or so csv files, w/ the account number in the 4th field. What I would like to do is remove all lines if the... (19 Replies)
Hey People,
I've got a question! How can i write a function in a script which is looking for if a group exist and if not, that the group "users" is the standard group..I know that i have to use "grep" und "if-else"..I will be very happy for answers ;)
Greetz
Ali (2 Replies)
I am trying to add some code to the begging of a script so that it will remove all the .transcript files, when their is no coressponding .wav file. But it doesnt work.
This is the code I have added:
for transcriptfile in `$voicemaildir/*.transcript`; do
wavfile=`echo $transcriptfile | cut -d'.'... (2 Replies)
Our SAN administrator decided to unpresent then destroy LUN's we were actively using as a volume group (all PV's in said volume group). Now every time I do a pvscan or whatever it complains about I/O errors trying to access those PV's. How do I get it to forget the VG existed completely? vgreduce... (7 Replies)
Hi,
In the following output you can see the the user "richard" is a member on the team/group "developers":
# id richard
uid=10247(richard) gid=100361(developers) groups=100361(developers),10053(testers)
but in the following details of the said group (developers), the said user... (3 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I'm able to create a group but when I'm trying to delete the group it keeps stating Group Doesn't Exist. I know... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
lgroupmod
lgroupmod(8) System Manager's Manual lgroupmod(8)NAME
lgroupmod - Modify an user group
SYNOPSIS
lgroupmod [OPTION]... group
DESCRIPTION
Modifies the user group with name group.
OPTIONS -A, --admin-add=list
Add users in comma-separated list among group's administrators.
-a, --admin-remove=list
Remove users in comma-separated list from group's administrators. Removing users that are not currently among group's administra-
tors silently succeeds.
-g, --gid=gid
Change group's group ID to gid.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-L, --lock
Lock group. This prevents users from using the group password with newgrp(1) to become a member of group.
-M, --member-add=list
Add users in comma-separated list among group's members.
-m, --member-remove=list
Remove users in comma-separated list from group's members. Removing users that are not currently among group's members silently
succeeds.
-n, --name=name
Rename group to name.
-P, --plainpassword=password
Set group's password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1).
-p, --password=encrypted
Set group's password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lgroupmod
using tools such as ps(1).
-U, --unlock
Unlock group.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 11 2005 lgroupmod(8)