Re: groups

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 08:54:22PM +0100, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think there is no real tool for adding and removing users from a group
> yet, is there? I think usermod isn't that comfortable.
> 
> I think it would be nice to have a command, let's call it group or whatever
> which could be used to add and remove users from specific groups in
> /etc/group:
> 
> group dialout add roland
>  # adds user roland to group dialout
> 
> group dialout del roland
>  # removes user roland from group dialout
> 
> What do you think? It should be no big think to write.
> 
> I am currently writing for a deluser to make a pair with adduser. Is there
> interest that something like is is included in adduser, e.g.? I asked the
> maintainer of adduser about this, but he didn't answer... :-( 
> 
> Greetings, Roland

the gpasswd utility will do all group maintainence you need (except
adding groups which groupadd is for) 

gpasswd -a user group
gpasswd -d user group

it also sets group passwords, defines group administrators etc, those
feature are rarely used however..

-- 
Ethan Benson