creating groups in unix - without using /etc/group

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1./etc/groups - system group question

Can groups be assigned within the /etc/group file?

For instance:
system:!:0: user1,user2,user3

These userids are located in the /etc/passwd file.

In the same /etc/group file I also have a "user2" group with many
users (close to 100).

My question is, do all user2 group users have root capabilities, or is
this just limited to the ID from the /etc/passwd file?

I am not a Unix administrator, so I can not test. I appreciate any
response.

Thank you

2./etc/group length name -- pw add group no more the 16 characters

Hi all,

I've wrote together a little shell script which creates a 
/etc/mail/aliases from /etc/group and some other files.
The reason for this is that my inexperienced admin can add users on the 
windows machine with webmin so it get's an e-mail account.
And by the fact that my security groups are virtual equal to my mail 
list groups.
By putting the user in a unix group the user will be put in the a 
multi-reception alias (and a address book for openwebmail). Quite happy 
with the results I began testing and quickly found out that when I do pw 
group add groupnamewithmorethen16characters I get the following:

# pw group add groupwithmorethen16characters
pw: name too long `groupwithmorethen16characters' (max is 16)

Ok that fair enough but where is is then a gecos field like described in 
man master.passwd to display a more visual friendly name to the users?
I've worked around it by aliases then actual group name with a more in 
the aliases file, since that is the primary reason for a nice name.

What is the reason /etc/group can not have a group name longer than 16 
characters and why would it be not advisable to change that?
I began looking to NIS for easier administration but how does NIS cope 
with long group names (isn't it just a auto-distributed copy)?.

I really would appreciate if somebody would shed a little li-(nk)|(ght) 
for me on this matter.

MPH

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Marco Parrone wrote:
> Jeremy L. on 1 Nov 2004 08:16:30 -0800 writes:
> 
> 
>>1. How do I tell random to use a range of 0-10 instead of 0-32767...
> 
> 
> $(($RANDOM*10/32767))
> 

$(($RANDOM%11))

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I am running debian/unstable and I am looking for an easy way to
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