Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-28 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Mick wrote: 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. heh, I know the feeling. My day job

[gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the time. More recently, I created a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 27. August 2007 schrieb ext Mick: I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below /home/user_name1. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Default group for users

2007-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 August 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I have a box which until recently had only one user. When I created this user as e.g. user_name1 his home became owned by user_name1:users. This cascaded to directories below