Re: User group "users"

From	Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: User group "users"
Date	2022-01-21 16:30 +0100
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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.

Cheers,
Jerome


> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
>

Thread

User group "users" Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2022-01-21 15:10 +0100
  Re: User group "users" Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-01-21 16:10 +0100
    Re: User group "users" Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net> - 2022-01-21 16:30 +0100
      Re: User group "users" Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2022-01-21 16:30 +0100
        Re: User group "users" Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2022-01-21 19:20 +0100
          Re: User group "users" Toni Mas Soler <antomassol@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-22 09:10 +0100
    Re: User group "users" Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2022-01-21 16:30 +0100
      Re: User group "users" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-21 17:30 +0100
  Re: User group "users" Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-21 18:40 +0100

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