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From: Darius Ramanauskas <dara@kada.lt>
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Hi,

Troy Settle wrote:

> I was once told the reason for why FreeBSD defaults to adding each user to
> his own group, but I fail to remember why.  Also, I fail to understand why a
> user must be added to the group file if his group is already assigned in the
> passwd file.
>

It is a bug of adduser script, someone told me it will be changed in next
release.

Darius

TDD Sys/Net Admin
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