Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:19:56 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@FreeBSD.or.ke> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Changing Groups Message-ID: <20010611191956.A17512@everest.wananchi.com>
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Hello team, I have a box running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE with 5K plus users. Each user was created on this system with their own group, as in user freebsd belongs to group freebsd and user linux belongs to the group linux..poooh!! I inherited this box but I sincerely hate this idea of having my /etc/group grow as I add users. I want to have only a few groups: staff - for company staff users - all other users This way I can also be able to enforce quotas on the system. I am now looking at a way of changing each user's group to 'users'. Since staff users are only a handful, I can take care of that manually since I know each other byname. I could think harder to get this done - remove the thousands of groups from /etc/group and even run a small script that would do recursive chown user:$group in /home but when it comes to the master passwd file I am thoroughly stumped! Just so that I do not re-invent the wheel, could it be possible someone out there has gone thro' this and may be willing to share their scripts with me. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer scientists. Researchers into the phenomenon cite the added concentration needed to "make sense" of such unnatural three dimensional objects. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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