[Gllug] Reason behind groups

[Chris Ball]

>> On 2002-10-15, Jonathan Dye <jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com> said:

   > Hi, I've noticed several distributions that by default set the
   > group of new users to have the same name as the user.  i.e.  User X
   > has primary group X but I can't see a good reason to have it this
   > way.

It's just the default.  There's nothing stopping you having something
like 'cvs:x:32767:user1,user2,user3' under this scheme.

- Chris.
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