The user's primary group should be soley controled by the /etc/passwd file (assuming you're not using ldap, etc..). You shouldn't need to change /etc/shadow at all.
Cheers, Tanner On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:48:40 -0500, Blackburn, Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to the shadow password file processing and Have a question. > How do I properly change a users primary group. > > Can I just enter it into the /etc/passwd file? > How do the changes get propogated to /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow? > > Any help would be appreciated. > I am running redhat as 2.1 > > ------------------ > Marvin Blackburn > Systems Administrator > Glen Raven > "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
