On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > > > There's two ways of doing this, either new users all have the same > > > inital primary group, or they get one based on their user name. The > > > second is preferred as homw dirs are then not open by default like > > > they would be if they were all owned by the users groups, and the > > > user sets a umask of 0002 > > > > From what you're saying the current default Gentoo set up is to have > > a separate primary group, based on the user's name. Was this the > > case 3-4 years ago? > > Dunno :-) I haven't been a gentooite for that many years yet > > > > You can actually do it any way you want and that suits your needs, > > > but the current gentoo default is a sane default. CHange it if you > > > want with the usual tools to manipulate > > > /etc/passwd|group|shadow|gshadow > > > > I am aware of these files, but what tools are the "usual tools"? > > ch* and other user/group related commands out of sys-apps/coreutils
There you go! I learn something new every day. I used to modify these files by hand and now I find out that there's a batch command available too. Thanks! -- Regards, Mick
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