That's the way that RedHat works, too. If I remember the RH doc set, every
user is their own group, but can also be member of various "project" groups.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] So, if 7.1 is now final...
> 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
>
>
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Jonathan M. Prigot
