On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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>> In fact, by experiment, the only group that I belong to that I can
>> successfully "newgrp" to is "staff" which has no entry in
>> /etc/gshadow. So I don't understand. And this is wandering far from
>> newbie territory.
>>
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> In my opinion it doesn't wander too far. Newbies need to learn about groups
> and we can sort how far along the discussion we follow. If you curtail the
> discussion too much, we won't learn much. Besides now I know that
> /etc/gshadow exists and might be more inclined to look it up in the future.
This morning's experimental results.
1) There is no way to delete a group with the GUI. So $sudo
/usr/sbin/vigr is the only way.
2) There is some interaction between the GUI User and Group Manager
and group properties that I don't understand. There is something
going on besides what can been seen in /etc/group and /etc/gshadow.
If I create another group by editing /etc/group, and make myself a
member of it, newgrp lets me in.
If I make myself a member of an existing (came with the system) group
by editing /etc/group, then newgrp won't let me in. But if I unjoin
the group using the GUI and then join it again, newgrp works as
expected.
carl
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