Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly. My original question: > I have a single group setup in my /etc/group file. It contains almost > all the users I have. I want to break this group up into several smaller > groups (separated by department), but for legacy purposes I need to > maintain the larger group as well. Is it possible to have a group made > up of other groups? If so, what is the syntax? > > I know I could merely create the new groups and then when new users come > in I could just add the user to both the old large group and the > department, but that's a silly way to do it, I think. Haveing a group of > groups would make things a little cleaner/manageable I think. > Solution: You cannot create a group-of-groups. The solutions to large-group-problems are: 1) Use netgroups and script around groups. or 2) Create the other groups, but give them the same GID as the original large group. I will be using 2). Thanks everyone! (Especially Fabrice, venki, and Matthew) -=Wes=- -- ---------------------wes.suess@bigidea.com-------------------- -= Wesley Suess - SSA/Unix - Big Idea Productions - ext6270 =- -------------------------------------------------------------- "ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones." - The Patton Diaries _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Mar 6 10:58:10 2002
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