DJ Lucas wrote these words on 09/26/05 01:09 CST: > I really don't think that it matters a whole lot so long as the chosen > group does exist ;-) and is not given perms where they're not needed, > but I'll throw out a suggestion anyway. The group 'nogroup' might work > well. For me personally on my own systems, I will use a matching group > name to ease (or furthur complicate) administration....but I do this for > all users anyway and match gid and uid as well. I know RH's useradd > defaults used to work this way, I'm not sure of their current practice.
I'm starting to think that BLFS needs a short section on how to create regular users of the system. Best I can recall, nowhere do we identify how to set up a regular user of the system. Though it seems trivial, some do it one way (create a "users" group) and others do it another way (how you suggest, creating a matching group name for each user name). BLFS should probably have a paragraph in the "About System Users and Groups" section in Chapter 3 that recommends one way or another. Thoughts from the group would be appreciated... -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 01:12:01 up 1 day, 9:36, 3 users, load average: 1.18, 1.00, 0.60 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
