From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:34:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B40C14C04 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA71956; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:32:39 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:32:38 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing group at install? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026092020.007274e8@slider> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Michael Rothenberg wrote: >I installed 3.2 off of Walnut Creek cds on sunday. Went resonably well. >However, when I followed gregs book and went to add a new user with >'adduser' I got confused (p. 164). When it asks for the login group the >book puts in 'home'. when I put in 'home' I get: Group does not exist. >Obviously I should create the group now, but what kind of permisions would >the group 'home' have? Is this the generic user group that all users are >member of? Groups themselves are not assigned permissions. Files are assigned permissions. Some files may have permissions which allow a member of a group to write that file even if that group member is not the owner of the file. (I am ignoring special groups such as wheel.) Home might be the generic group that all users are a member of. The choice is entirely yours. On my box, my users are in group "users". Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells/ Jason Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message