Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:33:35 -0600 From: Anthony Rubin <tonyr@generalsearch.net> To: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing the group a user is in Message-ID: <00110815333502.00345@tonyr.office.generalsearch.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011081625040.22916-100000@demeter> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011081625040.22916-100000@demeter>
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On Wednesday 08 November 2000 03:29 pm, Wyatt Banks wrote: > I have added 3 users and gave each their default group name, which was the > same as their user name, but when learning how to apply quotas, I wanted > all 3 of these users in a group called 'users'. > > I went into /etc/group and changed the group name of the first user (GID > 1000) to 'users' and then used chpass to change the other 2 user's group > to 1000. When each of them logs on, performing echo $GROUP returns > 'users' but when each of them created a new file, that file's group is > each of their former group names, not 'users'. > > How do I change a user's group? Did I change these correctly? How do I > make it when the user's group is changed that any new files that user > creates are in the new group? > thank you > banksw@sunyit.edu Take a look at the group owner of the directory that you are creating the file in. -- Anthony Rubin GeneralSearch.Com, Inc. tonyr@generalsearch.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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