From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 20 15: 2: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1513915AD2 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA02127; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manpages vs. reality In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, O. Hartmann wrote: > Well, I posted a lot about this problem ... > > Manpages for /etc/group says, that each user is uniquely defined in a > group by adding its group number via vipw in master.passwd. But this is not > true, you must put each user separately into the groupmember field of > the group in /etc/group. Why? Can anybody explain, why this is fact but > the manpages are not pointing to that? please state what version of the manpage you are talking about. my manpage for group doesn't have this problem. please quote the reference. thank you, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message