Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:12:15 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "adduser" and single-user groups Message-ID: <20100127181215.GA68645@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20100127120511.A42534@starfire.mn.org> References: <20100127120511.A42534@starfire.mn.org>
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Hi, John John wrote: > Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard > to the value add of the "group per user" approach that adduser > uses? Is that a FreeBSD thing, or a *BSD thing, or a unix-like-universe > thing, or what? > If I understand your question correctly, you are asking about the default group to which a user is added upon user creation. If not, please explain more on what you are asking. useradd(8) will automatically add a user to a group, named after the user, unless otherwise specified. This is the login group for the user, and the primary GID used when read/write access to files and directories is determined. This, of course, can be overridden with the '-g' flag, changing the default group, and additionally with '-G' to add to several groups. Regards, -- Glen Barber
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