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Aaron Denney wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:09:04 -0400, Feuer <feuer@his.com> wrote:
> > Is there any reason that normal users are not allowed to create and
> > destroy groups? I think it would be nice if a user could create a
> > group, thereby becoming its manager. That person could add and remove
> > users from the group, and could perhaps transfer management to another.
> > To avoid security problems, maybe only allow groups >N to be created and
> > managed by users. Is there something I am missing here?
>
> Well, for one thing, this is not kernel related. All the kernel does
> is keep track of which processes have which gids and supplementary
> group ids. login parses /etc/passwd and /etc/group to determine
> what the uid and gids the process it spawns should have. It is fairly
> easy to set up a system whereby /etc/group is automatically generated
> from a database where certain groups are user-modifiable.
>
> --
> Aaron Denney
> -><-
>
With groupmod, if a group already exists, you can set up a group "moderator"
that can add and delete users from a group. At least theoretically, although
I've never tried it. The group must have been made by root however.
Joseph Malicki
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