The Monday 2004-01-26 at 11:25 -0000, steve-ss wrote:
You don't need to add users to the 'users' group, they are there by default. On my '/etc/group' file, there is nobody in the users group:
users:x:100:
OK but I can't fit 160 users into the eg the uucp group.
I don't think you need to have anybody at all in group "uucp".
Would this work in /etc/group?:
uucp1:x:72:steve, (lots of other users here) uucp2:x:73:invitado, (more users here) uucp:x:14:uucp1,uucp2
In other words, are steve and invitado now members of the uucp group? Can you split it up like this?
Mmmm, recursive definitions... I don't know. Perhaps:
uucp:x:14:steve, (lots of other users here) uucp1:x:14:invitado, (more users here)
You can only try. I read some docs the other day, when you first asked, and I don't think I like nis too much... and it seems that NIS+ is no longer developed, and has many bugs (according to the howto). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson