topic Re: Users & groups administration in Operating System - HP-UX

Users & groups administration

Arturo Perez del Galleg — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:44:41 GMT

Hi all!
I'm creating a new group in my HPUX 11.0 server and i want to include in this all the members of the various existing groups. How to i can to structure this for not insertion of new members on every group? I can to define a group into an other group?
Any suggestion or link is very preciated.
TIA

Re: Users & groups administration

Umapathy S — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 08:38:20 GMT

My apologies.

Using mozilla and replied on the wrong tab.

very sorry,
Umapathy

Re: Users & groups administration

Vicente Sanchez_3 — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:50:57 GMT

Hello Arturo,

I think that you can find the solution with logingroup, man logingroup.

HTH, Vicente.

Re: Users & groups administration

Rajesh G. Ghone — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:59:51 GMT

Hi,

You can try logingroup or newgrp for more details please see man pages.

Regards,
Rajesh G.

Re: Users & groups administration

Arturo Perez del Galleg — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:03:14 GMT

Sorry, this is the solution for the membership of the account on various groups, but i must to join the new account on various groups. It is'nt possible to create one hierarchy of groups? Creating the user in one group, it's member in the other one, because the "hierarchy".
TIA

Re: Users & groups administration

John Meissner — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:06:13 GMT

Just out of curiousity... buy why would you want to do this? doesn't this compromise security? Unix already has a group that "everyone" can belong to... it's called users.
Is there some type of application that you are trying to give everyone permissions to?
I'm curious as to your reasons for doing this.

Re: Users & groups administration

Darren Prior — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:09:52 GMT

Hi,

There is no concept of group hierarchy in HP-UX I'm afraid - there is no place in /etc/group for other group names within a group.

regards,

Darren.

Re: Users & groups administration

Zeev Schultz — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:30:29 GMT

Hm,probably you should try some more advanced
methods,like ldap maybe?

Re: Users & groups administration

Arturo Perez del Galleg — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:32:23 GMT

In my installation it's a definition of groups and the user's membership that i believe correct. I must create an other new group (A)composed by the users of all the users of various existing groups (B) and others users.
In the future if an otther user is created on an existing group of A, i must to include on A and on B (and on C, on D).
My question was if it's an other way more easy to do this, but...
TIA