I need to create a group that has the same permissions as the users group. Can I have the new group be a member of the "users" group to inherit its permissions?

No. Only people can be members of a group.

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OK. Is there a way to list every object that the group has access to? I need to create an oracle group with the same permissions as the "users" group.

You could use 'find' for this:
But what's the rational for this?
Again - what are you trying to achieve?

Even if you manage to create a different group - file-system
objects can only have one owner group. Unless you dive into
ACLs - in which case you have to read your distributions
man-pages for file-systems and relevant commands.



Cheers,
Tink

Hi Tink

I am trying to install Oracle and have so many problems with it. My goal is to install it according to this link

http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/09/11g...h-asm-on-oel5/

however, I noticed that the installation will only succeed if I do it with my default account that i used to install Linux (not root). I thought of replicating the permissions of "users" to the "oinstall" or "dba" groups mentioned in the link. You ask why I bother if it works when installing it with my default account? Well... it doesn't really... after the installation everything seems to work fine until I restart my MAC Parallels virtual machine where Linux is installed. Some settings seem to be overwritten and Oracle doesn't start anymore (TNS Listener error). I thought installing it according to the link would fix the problem.

I had some issues when following the link, upon creating the "oracle" user, I found that I was not able to login from OpenSuse/KDE. After trying many different things, I found that useradd does not create a home directory by default, so i had to add a few switches "-c -m" if i recall correctly to fix this. Now the Oracle account is created properly, but the installation fails unless I use my default user.