Re: login group for users should be?

[Christopher Kruslicky]

On Friday 05 August 2005 04:06 pm, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
 On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:21 +0200, Tim wrote:
  When creating a user I am wondering what is
  recommended when assigning a login group to the user.
 
  There are to alternatives, giving the user unique
  login group (same as his name) or giving the user a
  general login group such as users.
 
  What do you recommend?

 I, personally, always use a unique login group, and add the group
 users as a secondary group. But, like a lot of other things, it really
 depends on what you need, and what your users need.

That's what I typically do as well, primary group same as username.  Then if 
the account is for a human it gets 'users' added as a secondary group.  It 
matters in a few places, like sshd_config where I put something like this:

AllowGroups users

login group for users should be?

[Tim]

When creating a user I am wondering what is
recommended when assigning a login group to the user.

There are to alternatives, giving the user unique
login group (same as his name) or giving the user a
general login group such as users.

What do you recommend?

Thanks.

Re: login group for users should be?

[Will H. Backman]

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 Tim
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 Subject: login group for users should be?
 
 When creating a user I am wondering what is
 recommended when assigning a login group to the user.
 
 There are to alternatives, giving the user unique
 login group (same as his name) or giving the user a
 general login group such as users.
 
 What do you recommend?
 
 Thanks.

Not to support one or the other, but some discussion of the user private
group:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-use
rs-groups-private-groups.html

This is not the traditional default in BSD systems.

Re: login group for users should be?

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:21 +0200, Tim wrote:
 When creating a user I am wondering what is
 recommended when assigning a login group to the user.
 
 There are to alternatives, giving the user unique
 login group (same as his name) or giving the user a
 general login group such as users.
 
 What do you recommend?

I, personally, always use a unique login group, and add the group
users as a secondary group. But, like a lot of other things, it really
depends on what you need, and what your users need.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]