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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:55:29 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Gene Harris <zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com>
To:        Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Missing group at install?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910260943190.14034-100000@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991026092020.007274e8@slider>

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The group home is not a standard group in FreeBSD.  Greg's
book is simply showing an example.  You might want to add a
group, such as "users" before you add your actual users.

When I initially started working with FreeBSD, I made my
first user a member of the wheel group.  That way I could
log in and 'su' to do system operations and then exit back
to a normal user.  You need to at least make one user a
member of wheel so you don't need to log in as root in order
to perform system maintenance.

 Gene



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