From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 10 15:40:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00346 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA00316 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:40:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA26968 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmarco.eclipse.org.eclipse.org (ts1port6d.masternet.it [194.184.65.28]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA00782 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:12:24 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0b35.32.19961111000652.00692990@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b35 (32) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 00:07:46 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: users & mail & group Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'd like to make you 2 questions : 1) Why adduser add the user name in /etc/group even if it isn't mandatory ? I explain better . If I create the user "gmarco" that belongs to group 2000 (user) adduser add gmarco to 2000 group in /etc/group even if 2000 is the default group of gmarco. I always have to delete the username after the group by hand. It begin to be annoying :-) 2) How I can send a mail to all the user of a group ? I.e. I'd like to send a mail to all the users belong to 2000 group. Is it possible or I must use an alias followed by all the names in the same line ? (I have 300 users to administer and I think it isn't safe to add everyone to the line of the group.) Thanks in advance. Regards... +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Internet: gmarco@masternet.it | ,,, | | Internet: gmarco@nettuno.it | (o o) | | BIX : ggiovannelli@bix.com | ---oo0-(_)-0oo--- | | http://www2.masternet.it/ | Gianmarco | +-------------------------------------+--------------------+