[Gllug] Reason behind groups

[Jonathan Dye]

Chris Ball wrote:
>>> 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.  

I usually set my groups to something more useful anyway.

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

Can you list multiple groups in the passwd file then?  I always thought the
primary group went there and the groups file had your name against all the
other groups you were a member of.

> - Chris.

JD

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