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 -- Roberto C. Sánchez