On 2020-07-06 19:23, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 2020-07-06 04:17, Jon Ingason wrote:
>> Den 2020-07-06 kl. 11:23, skrev ToddAndMargo via users:
>>> On 2020-07-05 23:31, Jon Ingason wrote:
>>>> Den 2020-07-06 kl. 07:49, skrev ToddAndMargo via users:
>>>>> On 2020-07-05 21:47, Tom H wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:59 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>>>>>> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ grep -i users group
>>>>>>> users:x:100:todd
>>>>>>> libvirt:x:977:root:users
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you sure that you can nest a group within another in "/etc/group"?
>>>>>
>>>>> I goofed the syntax.   You use @ in front of groups
>>>>>
>>>>> libvirt:x:977:root:@users
>>>>
>>>> Why not read the man page?
>>>>
>>>> $ man 5 group
>>>>
>>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>>          The  /etc/group file is a text file that defines the groups on
>>>>          the system.  There is one entry per line, with the following
>>>>          format:
>>>>
>>>>              group_name:password:GID:user_list
>>>>
>>>>          The fields are as follows:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>          user_list   a  list  of  the  usernames that are members of this
>>>>                      group, separated by commas.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So the line for libvirt in /etc/group should be:
>>>>
>>>> libvirt:x:977:todd,user1,user2,...
>>>
>>>
>>> Several of us did, including me.
>>>
>>> Did you find @group in the man page anywhere?  I only
>>> remembered it off the top of my head.
>>
>> No, there don't exist any variable like "@group" in /etc/group. The data
>> in /etc/group lines where format is:
>>
>> group_name:password:GID:user_list
>>
>> It has been in over 40 years in Unix and ever since Linux where born.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jon Ingason
>
> Yet it somehow got rid of pol kit prompt with virt-manager
>

I hate to repeat myself.  But, not for me.  So, I think you've done more than
just that.

Anyway, this is a dead horse.


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