Date: 14 Jan 1998 08:21:55 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: George Vagner <vagner@ti.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groups Message-ID: <87d8hvf858.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: George Vagner's message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 03:09:22 -0600 (CST)" References: <199801140909.DAA13787@epcot.spdc.ti.com>
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George Vagner <vagner@ti.com> writes:
> where do i find a list of group names IE: wheel,network...etc... and
> what each group allows or is for?
The file is called "/etc/group". The "wheel" group is special b/c you
need to be in that group to super-user ("su") to root. The other
groups...um... well, here goes:
wheel:*:0:root,sfarrell --who can su to root (admins)
daemon:*:1:daemon --system daemons
kmem:*:2:root --access to kernel memory (e.g., top)
sys:*:3:root --
tty:*:4:root --access to tty's (e.g., wall)
operator:*:5:root --
mail:*:6: --access to mail spool dirs
bin:*:7: --most normal programs
news:*:8: --like mail but for news
man:*:9: --access to formatted man dirs
games:*:13: --access to games (no cheating!)
staff:*:20:root --
guest:*:31:root --
uucp:*:66: --like mail but for uucp
xten:*:67:xten --(what the hell is xten, anyway?)
dialer:*:68: --
network:*:69: --
nogroup:*:65533: --
nobody:*:65534: --nobody user is for non-access
--
Steve Farrell
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