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


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