groupmod man page

[Keith Roberts]

Hi. This is on Fedora Core 6 platform.

> From the man page for:

System Management Commands  06/24/2006  GROUPMOD(8)

*snip*

OPTIONS

The options which apply to the groupmod command are:

  -g gid  The numerical value of the group's ID. This
          value must be unique, unless the -o option is
          used. The value must be non-negative. Values
          between 0 and 999 are typically reserved for
          system groups. Any files which the old group
          ID is the file group ID must have the file group
          ID changed manually.

  -n new_group_name The name of the group will be changed
                    from 'group' to 'new_group_name'.

*snip*

That seems a bit unclear to me. Do you think it would be 
easier put across like this:

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OPTIONS

The options which apply to the groupmod command are:

  -g gid  The numerical value of the group's ID. This
          value must be unique, unless the -o option is
          used. The value must be non-negative. Values
          between 0 and 999 are typically reserved for
          system groups.

For any files that belonged to the old 'group', the GID must 
be changed manually to 'new_group_name', to keep those files 
(and directories) as members of 'new_group_name'. This can 
be done manually with a root user command, such as:

#chgrp -R new_group_name directory_target

which should recursively change all files and 
sub-directories to new_group_name in directory_target. 
Please see the chgrp man pages for full details.
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Kind Regards

Keith Roberts

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