From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 2:47: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB5A37B408 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74D4471DA for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3058FEBE for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D0DB00F.D4F9DF3B@pantherdragon.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:46:55 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does adduser(8) rearrange my /etc/group? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I like to keep my /etc/group file broken into sections: the default GIDs, user GIDs, and GIDs for things like segregating access to parts of filesystems and for run-as daemon's I've installed. Whenever I add a user with adduser(8), and add a group in the process, the script rearranges my /etc/group file, sorting by GID. Why does it do this, and is it really necessary? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message