From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 11:10:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF3C37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19F8C43E4A for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 25166 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 19:10:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2002 19:10:14 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.2.17) with SMTP id M2002112211101301408 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:10:13 -0800 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gAMJAEnr021742 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:10:14 -0800 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beast.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMJ9ULL028657 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@beast.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200211221909.gAMJ9ULL028657@beast.csl.sri.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwords in /etc/group In-Reply-To: Message from Cliff Sarginson of "Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:07:29 +0100." <20021122190729.GB833@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:09:30 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett 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 Wow! An English right here on FreeBSD-Questions! > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:32:54AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > What purpose do they serve ? > > > A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups > > > for their work. > > > I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, > > > and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they > > > are more trouble than they are worth. > > > > (Please put blank lines between paragraphs or use bullets or > > indentation or something. This isn't a Poetry 101 forum. Thanks.) > > > - Neither is it a forum for you to make silly snidy comments. > > - The above is perfectly readable. > > - And don't assume everyone is American and knows what the hell a > Poetry 101 forum is (surely it should be Forum). And please don't begin > an email with parenthetical comments. This is stylistically > unforgiveable. > > You might care to know that in the language of your forefathers a blank > line is often ommitted between paragraphs. > > Thanks. > -- > Regards > Cliff Sarginson > The Netherlands > > [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message