-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:32 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Changing primary user group Mike Westkamper wrote: using as someting You must add the group _first_, THEN you can add users and make the new group their primary group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens(a)vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I agree, however the GNOME applet doesn't seem to allow this. It seems to make the group the userid or "user". I'm not sure if it is a bug or just a limitation on my part! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

--- Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)trinity.edu&gt; wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Mike Have you tried the utility "gpasswd" which allows you to set up a group administrator with specified privileges.More on it by invoking the man or info page. It might help. Murali ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html

In System Settings there (at the bottom for me) is an application called users and groups. Under groups you can assign any user to any group, and under users assign all users to the same group. -- jludwig <wralphie(a)comcast.net&gt;