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Creating groups

Hi, I would like to do some basic group and user creation in unix so I can practice.

1. When you create a new group, where is it placed? /etc ?

2. I want to make a new group called dissolved, and have executables in there (say, an executable called car.exe). So only members of the group can access the executable. I'll make the user "test_user1." What is the best way to do this?

root# groupadd dissolved
root# useradd test_user1
...then what?

Thanks

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Luxana

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Luxana

here is man page sam as you get with command
# man usermod

http://www.rt.com/man/usermod.8.html

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ASKER

Ok sweet, didnt know it was that easy. I thought I had to edit a config file of some sort. When I do
usermod -G group_name user_name , what are the default permissions the user gets?

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ASKER

im giving you the answer now since you answered very well. When you get a chance, can you answer my second question?

Thanks!

Luxana

first have a look hare:

http://owen.sj.ca.us/rkowen/howto/newuser.html

this is what you looikng for...

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ASKER

thx

Luxana

give me a second I got to do something now...I'll come back .. Read it and if something not clear post here...

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ASKER

thanks, can you assist here too? :-D
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21385593/umask.html

Luxana

sorry for delay...so how about your question . Did you find what you need to know in that link what I posted?

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ASKER

yes, thanks a lot. I'm currently try to comprehend the importance of the gpasswd command https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21387694/gpasswd-command-and-one-question.html