[aklug] Re: Group administrators...?

On Monday 13 December 2010 12:33:17 pm Christopher Howard wrote:
> Okay, one of these days I'm going to wake up and find out there is nothing
> left to learn about Linux. But it hasn't happened yet.
>
> Am I the only Linux user on the planet who didn't know there was such a
> thing as "group administrators" in Linux? According to this book I'm
> reading, you can designate users to be administrators for groups, using the
> gpassword command. "Group administrators may add members to and remove
> members from a group and change the group password." Also, regular users
> can add themselves to a group using the newgrp command, but only if they
> know the group password.
>
> The book says that not all distros are configured correctly to allow this.

Debian Squeeze: 'man gpasswd'

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Peace,
Greg
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