Thanks! > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schott, > Erik J Mr ANOSC/FCBS > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:06 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: user management questions > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
