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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:55:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Edmund Jackson wrote:

> Hoes do you change a user's group

1.  use vipw to change the group ID.
2.  use chown to chown all the user's files to reflect the new group.  (Is
this step really necessary, opinions?)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major