Re: groups

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/03

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To: "Alvaro Rosales R." <aran80@wintersperu.com.pe>

    On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Alvaro Rosales R. wrote:
    > Hi guys is it posible to create a group that can have 2 users and 2
    > groups of 5 users each inside it ?. I mean
    >
    > group1: member1, member2.....menber5
    > group2: member21, member22.....menber25
    > group3: user1, user2,group2, group1.
    > thanks for your help

    If you're talking about /etc/groups (see the group(5) man page), then
    no -- group members can't be other groups. You'll have to add each
    user to all of the groups they should be a member of individually.

    However the syntax of the example you give looks more like
    /etc/mail/aliases (aliases(5)) -- in that case, yes, you can chain
    mail aliases together in exactly this way.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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