[CLUE-Tech] groups

[David Jackson]

Mike --
man groupadd
man useradd
man adduser
man chown
man chgrp

Group info is kept in /etc/groups
A some of systems created a group for each user, added secruity
by default a file is created with the username and primary/default
group i.e. I create a file ls -l would show this:

-rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej          36 Apr 26 09:11 count.awk

If you install software from source it my require you to create a user and
group just for it, and tell you what group perms to apply MySQL for intance:

shell> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
     shell> make
     shell> make install
     shell> scripts/mysql_install_db
     shell> chown -R root  /usr/local/mysql
     shell> chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
     shell> chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
     shell> cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
     shell> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &


Some systems have files in /bin,/sbin owned by root:bin others
root:root

HTH,
David

> Hello, can someone tell me how to create, modify, and just basically 
> manage groups without using xwindows?  I have the boxed set of Red Hat 
> 7.1, and their books only explain how to do it with X.  
> 
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>                                -Mike Staver
>                                 staver at fimble.com
>                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
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