Random Things » MAC-OS http://www.edna.narrabilis.com Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:07:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Group Management in MAC-OS http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2009/07/18/group-management-in-mac-os/ http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2009/07/18/group-management-in-mac-os/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:04:48 +0000 ednawig http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/?p=56 By default /etc/group is consulted only in single-user mode, so that is not the way to deal with group membership under MAC-OS.

The command line utility dseditgroup is the way to go:

dseditgroup -o create -i 1000 newgroup

will create a new group called newgroup with gid 1000

dseditgroup -o edit -a someuser newgroup

Will add an (existing) user someuser to newgroup

dsedtigroup -o read newgroup

will display the properties of the group newgroup

dseditgroup -o delete newgroup

will delete the group newgroup.

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