Re: Groups

["Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com>]

as which user are you doing this?
root

what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)?
-rw-r--r--    1 root     0             445 Dec 19 15:38 group

what is the content of the file /etc/group ?
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:lp
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:
floppy:x:25:
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:
dip:x:30:
postgres:x:32:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:
video:x:44:
staff:x:50:
games:x:60:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
kevin:x:1000:

which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which group`)?
root@debian:/etc # which groups
/usr/bin/groups

what command do you try to use to add a user to a group?
groupadd
useradd

Thanks Kevin


----- Original Message -----
From: "A.R. (Tom) Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Groups


> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Kevin wrote:
>
> > No still does not work.
>
> More info please:
> - as which user are you doing this?
> - what are the ownership and access rights of /etc/group (use `ls -l`)?
> - what is the content of the file /etc/group ?
> - which `groups` command doe you actually use (type `which group`)?
> - what command do you try to use to add a user to a group?
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