Re: [MLUG] Simple command to add a user to a group?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Rages wrote:
> On 1/14/06, Ian <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > ditto stephen...
> >
> > just edit your /etc/group
>
>
> but if I am writing an installation script, I don't want to be editing
> people's /etc/group... what if I mess it up?

I don't see any other way to put someone into a group, because the way 
it is done is to change /etc/group.  It has such a simple structure that 
it would be easy to write a short perl or sed script to do the task (I 
would use perl, but that's because it is the only tool I know).  Indeed 
on most Linux/BSD systems, the adduser command is typcially some kind of 
script, which modifies /etc/group and /etc/master.password or whatever, 
which changes from system to system.

Stephen


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