Thank you for your help. I have googled but I only end up with Linux User groups from around the world (communities or something).

I have come across a situation where I need to make a group so that someone can have access to a certain folder without having access to anything else and the main user.

I would please like to know:

How to see what groups already exist. (and their members?)
How to make a new group.
How to add a user to a group.
How to delete a user from the group.
How to delete a group.

Help is greatly appreciated. I am curious about something.. when a new user is created i notice that the username is for both user and group. does this mean that each user automatically has their own group?

Thank you kindly for your response.

-Chi

hi chibi

take a look at the file /etc/group - that lists the group names, group ID, and the list of users in the groups. you can just edit this file manually - or there are gui-based user managers, like kuser as well.

thanks for the reply. on the system that i am setting this up on, i dont actually have a gui. commandline only.

i was hoping for commands for each. i also dont entirely understand the structure of the /etc/group file so I denno how quick I'll be to directly edit.

But as far as viewing the current groups its proved perfect, thank you.

Hi chi,
You can just use groupadd <grp name> command for adding group. U can use usermod command for changing existing users group and useradd -g <primy grp> -G <sec group> username for new user. For deleting any user from the group you just simply remove user name from /etc/group file. For deleting group use groupdel command. For more information on command see man <command>.

thank you kindly. thats what I needed

I've always found this useful:

http://www.slackbook.org/html/essent...SYSADMIN-USERS

(and the next page in that book)

that's always good advice, dhruvypatel

for ex., here try:

man group
man passwd

same for just about any program on your system. there's lots of documentation available -- not always easy to understand, but it's there