Re: removing user from group; vigr -s errors; group policies
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> Is there a simple way of removing a user from a specific group (not knowing
> what other groups the user is in), or is there a debian package that will do
gpasswd -d user group
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gpasswd
passwd: /usr/bin/gpasswd
> this? If I modify the /etc/group file directly with vigr, do I have to
> modify the shadowed group file as well? 'vigr -s' gives me these errors:
Yes.
> oskar:~# vigr -s
> vigr: /bin/ae: Bad address
> vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged
> vigr: /bin/ae: No such file or directory
> vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged
> -
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? (vigr without the -s switch
> works fine.)
This looks weird. My hamm version does not seem to do this.
What versions of passwd and ae do you have installed?
You might want to file a bug report, or send the file from
# strace -ff -o /tmp/vigr.trace vigr -s
in private mail to me.
> What are the purposes of all the default groups? Is there a document
> describing Debian's group policy?
Some are traditional (daemon,bin,sys), others are used - the
name should tell you a lot, and find / -group unknowngroup
the rest. I am not aware of any specific document.
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