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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:47:49 -0400
From:      Ichthyroid <jobooker@vt.edu>
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Chapter 6.8: groups
Message-ID:  <3B48E315.CA61F725@vt.edu>

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With regard to:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-groups.html

in Example 6-8, the output shows jru is a member of teamteo, a
misspelling of teamtwo.


Also
"The argument to the -M is a comma-delimited list of users who are
members of the group. If you've read the preceeding sections, you'll
know that the password file also contains a group for each user; the
group in the password file is automatically added to the group list by
the system and will not (should not) appear in the list of members when
using pw(8) to query group membership."

I don't quite understand this, but I take it to mean that if user jru is
specified to be in group jru from his password file, then if you "pw
groupshow jru" then jru will not be listed.  If this is right, you may
want to clarify the sentence. When you say "will not appear"  it refers
to the group.  But I *think* you mean the USER will not appear.  Either
way, it's a confusing paragraph.
Anywany, thanks for providing the documentation!
John Booker



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