From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 9: 0:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341B815216 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:59:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id LAA07766; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:59:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903221659.LAA07766@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Changing groups In-Reply-To: <19990322162256.28891.qmail@hotmail.com> from Neil Oosten at "Mar 22, 99 11:22:56 am" To: neiloosten@hotmail.com (Neil Oosten) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:59:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Oosten wrote, > Hello. > > Here's my situation: I want have a user who is a member of three > groups--say they are radio, tv, and newspaper. When the user logs in the > group is set to radio, but then he has to go edit something for radio. > How do I change the user's group from newspaper to radio. > > I'm pretty sure this can be done. I saw it elsewhere by using a really > wierd combination of keywords, but didn't write it down! >:( > > Can anyone give me the command name? I'm not sure what you are talking about. When someone is a member of three groups, that user is always a member of those three groups. There is no need to 'change' groups. If a user wants to change which group a specific file/directory is owned by, 'man chgrp.' -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message