"newuser"

[TerryP]

Well, in all fairness 70-80% of the changes that have happened in the user land since early UNIX, were either by people who wanted to add them or got paid to lol.

[tanked]

Sorry for the hijack

I swear to God, I must be blind, I genuinely cannot see the man page text that BSDKaffee posted, I've ran a word search in Firefox on the online manual page and I cannot find the text BSDKaffee quoted- can you point out to me the exact wording in the man page?

[anomie]

I apologize for dragging this thread more off-topic, but now I am becoming very curious. I don't see the option you all are referring to either. I searched the manpages for pw(8) for both '-d' and 'oldmembers' -- no dice.

> uname -rms
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 i386

[tanked]

Originally Posted by anomie

I apologize for dragging this thread more off-topic, but now I am becoming very curious. I don't see the option you all are referring to either. I searched the manpages for pw(8) for both '-d' and 'oldmembers' -- no dice.

> uname -rms
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 i386

So I'm not going crazy

Also as I said before, the command that BSDKaffee gave me:

pw groupmod group -d username

does not work and returns the following:

pw: illegal option -- d
pw: unknown switch

[BSDKaffee]

Ok, I apologize. I didn't realize how new the option was (it was commited in February. It is in 7.0-STABLE, however, which is what I am using.

As a cop out I made this script to remove a specified user from a specified group:

#!/bin/sh

# Remove a user from a group
# Usage: groupmod.sh <groupname> <username>
# Use only one group and one user at a time...multiple users could be done from another script

GROUP=$1
USER=$2
PW=/usr/sbin/pw
SED=/usr/bin/sed
 
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
	echo "Oops! You forgot to specify the Group."
	exit 1
fi
if [ -z "$2" ]
then
	echo "Oops! You forgot to specify the Username."
	exit 1
fi

# Show existing users in the group and use sed to remove them from the list
NEWMEMBERS=`${PW} groupshow ${GROUP} -P | ${SED} -e '1d' -e 's|^[ \t]*||' -e 's|Members: ||' -e "s|${USER}||g" -e 's|,$||'`
# Feed pw the list of users that were in the group minus the deleted user
${PW} groupmod ${GROUP} -M ${NEWMEMBERS}

[tanked]

I thought you may have been running a more bleeding edge version so I looked at the on-line pw man page for -STABLE and -CURRENT but its not in there either, the on-line man pages must not have been updated yet.

So the answer to my original question is to edit /etc/group, use the script you've provided (thanks for that) or update to -STABLE. Ah well, mystery solved.

[cajunman4life]

Hmm... I was misreading my manpage... the entry I was refering to was for adding a user to a group... strange.

uname -r
7.0-RELEASE-p1