On 2020-07-06 04:17, Jon Ingason wrote:
Den 2020-07-06 kl. 11:23, skrev ToddAndMargo via users:
> On 2020-07-05 23:31, Jon Ingason wrote:
>> Den 2020-07-06 kl. 07:49, skrev ToddAndMargo via users:
>>> On 2020-07-05 21:47, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:59 AM ToddAndMargo via users
>>>> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ grep -i users group
>>>>> users:x:100:todd
>>>>> libvirt:x:977:root:users
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure that you can nest a group within another in
"/etc/group"?
>>>
>>> I goofed the syntax. You use @ in front of groups
>>>
>>> libvirt:x:977:root:@users
>>
>> Why not read the man page?
>>
>> $ man 5 group
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>> The /etc/group file is a text file that defines the groups on
>> the system. There is one entry per line, with the following
>> format:
>>
>> group_name:password:GID:user_list
>>
>> The fields are as follows:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> user_list a list of the usernames that are members of this
>> group, separated by commas.
>>
>>
>> So the line for libvirt in /etc/group should be:
>>
>> libvirt:x:977:todd,user1,user2,...
>
>
> Several of us did, including me.
>
> Did you find @group in the man page anywhere? I only
> remembered it off the top of my head.
No, there don't exist any variable like "@group" in /etc/group. The data
in /etc/group lines where format is:
group_name:password:GID:user_list
It has been in over 40 years in Unix and ever since Linux where born.
Regards
Jon Ingason
Yet it somehow got rid of pol kit prompt with virt-manager