From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 13:51:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B841037B404 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2722543EB1 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18EzEK-000MXg-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:51:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 2B606BB2F for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:51:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 5A6E6BB17 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:51:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 904D0225F6; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:20:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:20:19 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwords in /etc/group Message-ID: <20021121212019.GA47022@raggedclown.net> References: <000701c29193$0f4a68f0$0a2da8c0@sem> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c29193$0f4a68f0$0a2da8c0@sem> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:20:32PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Hello. > > How can I use password in /etc/group? > If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? > Probably because no-one uses them :) What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message