[Samba] User Primary group problem

[Eric Hines]

Interesting.  I had occasion to use usermod -g (per my man pages, again, 
the g switch with usermod changes the primary group to the new one) to 
change my primary group.  It left my (previously existing) home directory 
owned by <me>:users (as it was originally created), but new stuff that I 
did within my home directory (and elsewhere) became owned by <me>:<new 
primary group>.

I've never used usrmgr, and I've never had trouble (except my own brain 
dead errors) with useradd or usermod.

Eric Hines

At 12/06/05 20:19, Michael Barnes wrote:
>That's what my man page says, also.  However, when applied to the adduser 
>script portion of smb.conf, it breaks usrmgr, which is the "recommended" 
>tool for adding users.  Further, after the user is created, if I change 
>the primary group in usrmgr, it only changes the NTgroup, not the 
>Unixgroup :-(  So, I have to go back to the command line and do a usermod 
>to set the Unix group correctly.  And, if that isn't bad enough, it 
>creates the users home folder owned by root:root, so I have to do a chown 
>to change it to user:user.  Sigh.
>
>Michael
>
>
>Eric Hines told me on 12/6/2005 20:21:
>>According to my SUSE man pages, adduser -g makes the group named after 
>>the g switch the primary group of the user named at the end of the command.
>>Eric Hines
>>At 12/06/05 19:29, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>
>>>This only makes the user a member of a group.  It does not change the 
>>>PRIMARY GROUP of the user.
>>>
>>>Ideally, I want to set the primary group of the user at the time of user 
>>>creation.  Lacking that, I'd like to be able to change the user's 
>>>primary NTgroup and Unixgroup at the same time.
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
>>>Craig White told me on 12/6/2005 18:30:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:08 -0600, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How do I establish both a user's primary NTgroup and Unixgroup when 
>>>>>creating a new user?
>>>>>
>>>>>Depending on the tool, I can set his NTgroup or his Unix group, but I 
>>>>>don't seem to be able to establish both with one tool.
>>>>----
>>>>man smb.conf
>>>>Example: add user to group script = /usr/sbin/adduser %u %g
>>>>Craig
>>>
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>
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