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Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Changing_User=B4s_Group?=
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:21:42 -0300
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Hi all,

Now, I tried pw command in another machine and it
worked fine.

Thanks a lot to everyone by the help.

Ronan Lucio

> Greetings,
>
>   huh??  how can it be groupmod.
>
>   I am guessing he wants to change the group of a user, his original
>   command looks correct to me, and would be what I would use.
>
> :> > pw usermod _userid_ -g _newgroup_
>
>   Are you sure the group of the user did not change??
>   Did you run the command as root?
>
>   In fact, I just tried and it works okay:
>     [frodo] # groups nobody
>     nobody
>     [frodo] # pw usermod nobody -g wheel
>     [frodo] # groups nobody
>     wheel
>     [frodo] # pw usermod nobody -g nobody
>     [frodo] # groups nobody
>     nobody
>
>   Works okay
>
> Regards,
> /calvin
>
>
> lines with :> are quotes from Gerald T. Freymann's email
> :> > I forgot to say, actually I´m needing to change the primary group
> :> > in master.passwd file, it´s because we grant some privilegious by
> :> > the user group, so, I need to chage it in master.passwd file.
> :>
> :>  Ok, I was thinking you just wanted to change the group on a file..
yes,
> :> what you want is different.
> :>
> :>  I believe Chris D. Faulhaber had the answer:
> :>
> :> > I´m trying to do it with pw command:
> :> > pw usermod user -g newgroup
> :>      ^^^^^^^
> :> Try groupmod :)
> :>
> :> -gf
> :>
>
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