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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support To identify the group owner Post 302915953 by hicksd8 on Friday 5th of September 2014 12:02:20 PM
Old 09-05-2014
Groups do not have owners.

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).
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

groups

groups(1)						      General Commands Manual							 groups(1)

NAME

       groups - Displays your group membership

SYNOPSIS

       groups [user]

DESCRIPTION

       The  groups command writes to standard output the groups to which you or the specified user belong.  The Tru64 UNIX operating system allows
       a user to belong to many different groups at the same time.

       Your primary group is specified in the /etc/passwd file. Once you are logged in, you can change your active group  with	the  newgrp  shell
       command (see sh). When you create a file, its group ID is that of your active group.

       Other groups that you belong to are specified in the /etc/group file.  If you belong to more than one group, you can access files belonging
       to any of those groups without changing your primary group ID.  These are called your concurrent groups.

NOTES

       The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files must be on the same node.

EXAMPLES

       To determine your group membership, enter: groups

       The groups to which you belong will be displayed.  For example: devel  prod

FILES

       Contains group information.  Contains user information.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1)

       Functions:  initgroups(3), setgroups(2)

																	 groups(1)
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