[clue-tech] Groups in groups?

[William]

List,

I could be wrong, but I believe I've read somewhere before that this was 
possible; albeit unusual.  I need to add a group as a member of another 
group in /etc/group to effectively combine the two groups.  I've checked 
with man and Google to no avail.

Example:  Have two groups, called group1 and group2.

group1:x:3000:user1,user2,user3
group2:x:3100:user5,user1,user7

For whatever reason (yes, I have adequate reason), you want to modify 
group2 like:

group2:x:3100:user5,user1,user6,[group1]

In effect, the users that are distinct to group2 and not in group1 do 
not adopt access rights to group1 resources, but all users in group1 and 
group2 have access to group2 resources.  It would be impractical for me 
to create and maintain yet another group to combine these user groups 
properly.

What syntax do I use to achieve this goal?  I have tried exactly what is 
in the above example (which is what I thought the syntax was to do 
this), but it didn't work.

Thanks!

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