Thanks Jay I actually did delete the 'mike' group and assigned the groups users and cvsusers to mike. Fortunately Im the only user now so its not a big deal if I have to su to root to change ownership of my own files. In the future Ill follow your advice. Thanks again for the reassurance. Mike -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jay Crews Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:33 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: User groups Listman writes.... > > When I create a new user, by default the user belongs to a group of > the same name. Why is this? It seems to me that having a group for > every single It's for securty, and yes it probably is a little overkill. > user is overkill. Id like to have all users belong to a 'users' group > and then more priviledged users belong to an 'admin type group'. Read the man page for 'adduser'. Note the -g and -G options. > > My question is, can I delete the user groups that have the same name > us users? Thanks in advance. That's going to be a pain. You're going to have the change groups for the files already created. And not all are in $HOME. ie /var/spool/mail You said, "When I create a new user......." You mean "a" user as in one user? Do the easy thing. Just delete the user, and re-create it with the proper -g and -G options. FAR easier! -- Jay Crews jpc@jaycrews.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
