A group is created as a means of managing access rights for a "group" of users en masse.
A group can be created with any arbitrary name: mqadm in your case.
If you 'cat' the group file (usually located at /etc/group) it will show what groups exist.
Code:
# cat /etc/group
On one line you will see the mqadm group and, at the end of the line, the list of members (users) of that group. The list is usually shown as actually usernames, otherwise it is a list of UID's (user numbers). If it's UID's (for example a list like 24,34,41,67,104) then you will need to match these numbers by looking in /etc/passwd file to translate each UID to a username.
DO NOT edit or in any way try to change /etc/group or /etc/passwd.
I am not an AIX expert. You may yet get better answer(s).
I am bit unclear of how Linux was set in the real world, please advise me how it's supposed to be.
When I log in as root and do a ls -l, I find: /boot, /, /var, /usr, /tmp, /home, /u01, /u02, /u03 and of of this partition is owned by root and the group also belong to root. Is that the way it's... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I don't know how the owner & group of a login file in redhat linux 7.2 changed to bache like,
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bache bache 17740 Jun 20 02:05 login
I am trying to change the owner and group to root by using
#chown root login
#chgrp root login
But i am getting the error ... (7 Replies)
hello
I search a script (ksh for Aix 5.3) to save all permissions, groups and owner for all files. Because we work much to change it, and a mystake ......!
So i want execute this script to save/ execute permissions for all files.
If you have this script, thank you for your help ;)
best... (2 Replies)
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I need a command or a script to change the group permissions to be the same as the owner permissions for all my files and directories (recursive)
any idea ? (4 Replies)
We have a program that when a new account is created using the webpage it creates a new directory on the linux filesystem for the account. The problem is the process that creates the directory is as root user, as I want ftpuser to be able to login I have to manually login and chown -R the... (1 Reply)
Hello, i would like to find huge files and group them by owners.
To find big files i use this command:
ls -lR | sort -bnr +4 | head -n 75
which give me 75 biggest files, then i need to see in which subdirectory is every file.
second thing i dont know is how to group those files by owner, could... (6 Replies)
Hi,
As root, I want to create a directory and set the group and ownership permissions at the same time with one command, instead of making the directory, then going back and doing a chown and chgrp.
I don't see an option for this in the mkdir man page. Would I pipe chown and chgrp with my... (1 Reply)
How would I find out who the group openers is of a file? For example:
> ls -l myfile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myronp hawks 20125 Oct 20 20:50 myfile
How do I return just hawks. I could do this with a series of cut or awk, but is there a more direct way.
The ls -g is better, but still... (1 Reply)
Dears
it is normal that the below binaries stay without any owner and group
I have checked it in many servers and the like the below
/usr/lpp/bos.net/inst_root/etc/ipsec# ls -lrt
total 248
-r-xr-xr-x 1 987 987 13589 Jun 29 2005 default_group
-r-xr-xr-x ... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
group
GROUP(5) BSD File Formats Manual GROUP(5)NAME
group -- format of the group permissions file
DESCRIPTION
The file </etc/group> consists of newline separated ASCII records, one per group, containing four colon ':' separated fields. These fields
are as follows:
group Name of the group.
passwd Group's encrypted password.
gid The group's decimal ID.
member Group members.
The group field is the group name used for granting file access to users who are members of the group. The gid field is the number associ-
ated with the group name. They should both be unique across the system (and often across a group of systems) since they control file access.
The passwd field is an optional encrypted password. This field is rarely used and an asterisk is normally placed in it rather than leaving
it blank. The member field contains the names of users granted the privileges of group. The member names are separated by commas without
spaces or newlines. A user is automatically in a group if that group was specified in their /etc/passwd entry and does not need to be added
to that group in the /etc/group file.
INTERACTION WITH DIRECTORY SERVICES
Processes generally find group records using one of the getgrent(3) family of functions. On Mac OS X, these functions interact with the
DirectoryService(8) daemon, which reads the /etc/group file as well as searching other directory information services to determine groups and
group membership.
FILES
/etc/group
SEE ALSO passwd(1), setgroups(2), crypt(3), getgrent(3), initgroups(3), passwd(5), DirectoryService(8)BUGS
The passwd(1) command does not change the group passwords.
HISTORY
A group file format appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
Mac OS X July 18, 1995 Mac OS X