On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Carl Lowenstein
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> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

> 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.

Found a good reference in the RedHat Enterprise Linux documentation.
Here is the page that specifically talks about /etc/gshadow.
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/6mlyck>

It is in the document "Introduction To System Administration", Section
"Files Controlling User Accounts and Groups"
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/6rwuro>

    carl
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