Re: User group "users"

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:
> > > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100,
> > > but by default no user gets added to it.  So what is the purpose or reason
> > > to have it?
> > > 
> > > >From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which every user was
> > > a member of, by default.
> > > 
> > New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default.  So, new
> > users are members of the group without having to be added to the group
> > in /etc/groups.
> 
> This might be specific to your installation.
> Usually users have by default their own group.
> 
Quite right.  It seems that I probably made that change a very long time
ago, long enough ago so that it just seemed like the standard
configuration to me.  Apologies for the misinformation.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez