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Re: Local groups


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Local groups
Date: 21 Apr 2005 10:07:13 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, david.nelson@ni.com wrote:

> When you say:
> 
>> any::
>> # the group will be created if they don't exist
>>  group cftest gid =1500
> 
> Where does the the group 'cftest' /w gid 1500 get registered?

cfperl will run 'groupadd' as appropriate to add the 'cftest' group.

'groupmod' will be used to modify existing groups when needed,
e.g. the gid changes.  Only the gid is changeable for groups.

'groupdel' will be used to delete users.

'useradd/mod/del' are used for user management in the same ways.  For
users, the following properties are controllable:

uid
gid
secondary_gid
homedir
shell
gecos

Which are basically what the useradd/usermod utilities support, and
cfperl delegates to them.

These utilities are in an OS matrix that can be extended to any number
of OSs and programs to get tasks done; right now Solaris and Linux are
trivially supported but there's no reason why any other OS can't be
included.

Ted




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