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the point of user groups?



adduser on a default Debian system will create a new group for each
new user, and make e.g. /home/joe be joe:joe. Why?

joe is *not* given rights to add members to the group. So what's the
point? I think this is a RedHat-ism, and I think they never had
a real reason.

Maybe I am also just overlooking the detail. Then please whack me
with the clue stick.

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