From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 06:22:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27454 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 06:22:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27295 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 06:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA05834; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:21:57 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA18535; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:21:55 -0600 (CST) To: George Vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groups References: <199801140909.DAA13787@epcot.spdc.ti.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 14 Jan 1998 08:21:55 -0600 In-Reply-To: George Vagner's message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 03:09:22 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: <87d8hvf858.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk George Vagner 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