begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:41:23AM -0800: [snip] > If you avoid it as a rule anyway, then why not go ahead and create a > UID:GID pair, just without a home directory? If I had been thinking > then the way I think now, then I would have done so with my special > group. Although I still don't know how to create a full-function GID > and just use up its corresponding UID without anything else normally > belonging to the UID. [snip]
GIDs aren't coupled to UIDs. They're just numbers. And you always have "nobody" and friends to use as a UID... -Stewart "Disdain this business of creating a new group for each user" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
