[PLUG] Permissions: multiple groups

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Tue Aug 5 15:28:02 UTC 2003


This will not work!  At least not for RedHat 8, and every other Unix
variant I've worked with ... granted, that's only been a dozen or so ...

 (1)  /etc/group entries must have 4 fields:
         groupname:gpasswd:gid:[user1[,user2]]

 (2)  It only accepts lists of users, not groupnames in the last field.


Use grpck(8) to verify your changes!

- Don


cooper at cooper.stevenson.name wrote:

>Scott,
>
>In /etc/group:
>
>business_hr: business, hr
>
>Your new group is 'business_hr'
>
>
>-Cooper
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>>Is it possible in Linux to assign more than one group to a particular
>>directory? For example, suppose group "business" and group "hr" need
>>write access to a directory. Is it possible to add a group as a member
>>of another group?
>>
>>-Scott
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