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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:33:05 +0200
From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: jase <jase@clearsail.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Groupes
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On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 at 14:14 SAT, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:51:06PM -0500, jase wrote:
> 
> > I'm just curious, why is it that every user gets their very own (empty!)
> > group?  I've seen on a lot of other OSs that everyone gets put into the
> > 'user' group (not to imply that is a better way of doing it.)  and I'm
> > wondering exactly what the advantages/disadvantages of this are.
> 
> The rationale for one-user ("unique") groups is described in the
> manpage for adduser(8).  The gist of it is that your users can then
[ snip for brevity ]

Quite so.  It bears pointing out that this default behaviour of adduser(8)
can be overridden, though.

-- V

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