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I seem to remember at my old company having groups inside of groups,
at least for NIS.

My new company isn't using NIS.  I don't really have a test machine
I can play with, so I'm hoping that someone out there can answer
this for me:  can I have groups within groups in /etc/group?

For example:

a::1000:user1,user2,user3
b::2000:user1,user4,user5
c::3000:a,b

Will group c have user1,user2,user3,user4,user5?
(I assume the duplication of user1 will not cause it to be added twice)

Thanks!

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Hmmm. I've never seen this except with netgroups. The work around I've
always seen was:

Quote:>a::1000:user1,user2,user3
>b::1000:user1,user4,user5

This means that group 1000 will have user1, user1, user2, user3, user4,
user5. And if group 1000 is the default gid for any user, they will show
up again. (This is from my experience of the groups command, of course it
doesn't really matter.)

Ciao,

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Hi,

I think you are thinking of netgroups, a function of NIS.  Look at the
documentation for NIS  to understand how to create and utilise netgroups.

Thanks,

Ken.