On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:01 -0600, Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > El mi?, 29-03-2006 a las 17:12 -0800, Susan escribi?: > > You just have to decide whether you want to continue with the Linux standard where every user is a > > member of his own group. As the number of users grows, that becomes a PITA. > > I've struggled with this issue, researching the rationale behind it, but > I'm not any wiser. > > Would anyone care to comment on the "every user has a group" issue? ---- I can't speak to Linux standard - I only am familiar with the Red Hat packaging, which would by default... useradd craig add both a user and a group named craig the man page for useradd on a Red Hat system has this caveat..." The version provided with Red Hat Linux will create a group for each user added to the system by default." I suspect this is what Susan is referring to. Of course, you can always pass a parameter to useradd... useradd -g dom_users craig which would not create a group named craig Craig
