Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2019-01-13 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 6:13 AM Bryan Harris wrote: > Is there also a difference when creating a file in a folder with set GID > bit on that folder and owned by secondary group? I think in normal > behavior, if folder allows a user to create a file (sec. group w/ 770 > perm.) then the new file

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2019-01-13 Thread Bryan Harris
On 12/30/2018 12:33 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:29 AM Ipsen S Ripsbusker < ip...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, compared to secondary groups? Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2018-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:29 AM Ipsen S Ripsbusker < ip...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: > Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, > compared to secondary groups? > > Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary groups > rather than only secondary groups? > >

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2018-12-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 07:27:48PM +, Ipsen S Ripsbusker wrote: > Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, > compared to secondary groups? > > Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary groups > rather than only secondary groups? > > Yet another

Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2018-12-29 Thread Ipsen S Ripsbusker
Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, compared to secondary groups? Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary groups rather than only secondary groups? Yet another phrasing: Why do I need to set a primary group?