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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards in /etc/group
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:14:56
Message-Id: 7573e9640602271441y34f4223cpc5584bb53c647859@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Wildcards in /etc/group by Sascha Hlusiak
1 On 2/27/06, Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > Hi group,
3 >
4 > I administrate a gentoo box, that authenticates with ldap.
5 > Authentication works fine, and the ldap server is giving my user an uid
6 > and one gid : 1000(Domain Users) in my case. I have NO access to the
7 > ldap server.
8 >
9 > I want now, on this local machine, that everybody, who can login, is in
10 > another group, maybe "audio". I can add certain ldap users to the
11 > /etc/group file, which is respected. So my ldap user is in the local
12 > wheel group, too.
13
14 If every user that logs in gets the same GID (domain users), you can
15 change the group IDs for those other groups to match. There is no
16 reason your /etc/group cannot contain:
17
18 domain users:x:1000
19 audio:x:1000
20 cdrom:x:1000
21
22 and so on...
23
24 -Richard
25
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