Re: Changing primary user group

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> 
> I need to set up a number of users and assign them to a primary group. For
> example, I am setting up a FC1 box as a CVS server. The approach I am using
> is to set up a number of cvs users and want to assign their primary group as
> CVSUSER.
> 
> The GNOME applet doesn't seem to allow it. (add user / change properties)
> And I have tried the traditional handtools but apparently there is someting
> else that prevents adduser/etc from really working.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Mike
I would use ACL to associate a group of users with access to a set of
directories which is what I assume you want to do.
see man acl
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