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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adding new group by hand.
Date: 13 Dec 1996 02:25:06 -0000
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In article <58p69d$5hr@melon.interpia.net>,
jedi@red.hnc.co.kr (Joohyee Lee) writes:
: Hi, there.
:
: I have modified my group file to add
: a new group aka "users" with a group number
: that is not used yet.
: When I try to invite a user to that group with
: adduser -group users -batch newuser or similar
: command like chgrp users somefiles, all the command
: fails. when I see directory list, group information
: is displayed as a group number.
: It was a normal operation modifying group file to
: add new group on Solaris or Linux but I think
: freeBSD offers different command set to add new group.
:
: Is there anybody who can enlight me?.
Just adding a line in the same format as the others in /etc/group has
worked for me. I've not used adduser though (good ol' vipw).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.