Hi Marvin. Yes, you COULD directly edit /etc/passwd, but that is far from the recommended means to change the user's primary group. Use, instead, usermod -g <gid> <username>. These changes are not propagated to /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, but propagated to /etc/passwd by the inner workings of the useradd binary. HTH. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Blackburn, Marvin Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:57 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: user management questions 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
