[OFF TOPIC]: Adding groups to groups?

[Iain Rae]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matthew Keller wrote:

> 
> 	Sorry for the off-topicness, but I need a solution, asap.
> 
> 	It would seem logical to me (and I swear I used to do this on SunOS,
> back in a day), that you can add groups to groups, like so:
> 
> admins::199:
> faculty::84:@admins
> students::84:@admins
> 
> 	This is to allow the admins to be in the faculty and students groups as
> well. I'm running RH6.

I think you're thinking of netgroups (that's what the syntax looks like to
me anyway )

check

man netgroup

and see if it looks like what you want

don't know if what you're trying would be supported unde Linux though








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