John Cavan wrote:
> Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> >
> > John Cavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > 2. When you create a normal user at install time it also creates a group
> > > that matches the user. That means I get john:john instead of john:users
> >
> > this is the standard way on our distribution, a user has a group and
> > after the administrator manage to set him on a different group.
>
> It may be the standard way on Mandrake, but it's not a standard way for
> Unix... it is unexpected behaviour and you do have a group labled
> "users" which I assume is for this purpose. It's not a big problem or
> anything, I just can't see the reason for doing it that way. The last
> thing any of us would want is a hundred different groups with the exact
> same name as the user IDs in the system.
>
> John
it is actualy very usefull because say you want user A to be able to access
files in a dirrectory but you do not want the people in the users group to be
able to access them, then you just set the gid of the dir to that users gid ,
it's not stupid it's very usefull and i find i use it very often on my server.
-DarkWlf
