Hello everyone, I have been running LFS systems for over seven years, but always with a very minimal level of software and supported services, and mostly just for my own personal use. The thing that has always prevented me from going further is the difficulty of getting an X desktop up and running nicely, but I am making an effort to do so now, attempting to follow the BLFS instructions scrupulously. That brings me to my question, which I hope is not too naive. I have not found an answer looking through the archives, or checking some other sources.
Chapter 3 of the BLFS 6.2 book talks about creating a whole bunch of default users and groups. I am not sure which of these I should create at this point, but that's not my question. Several of the groups have no users, and that I can understand. But five of the users (bin, lp, sendmail, anonymous, and nobody) have no associated groups. Is it possible to create a user without an associated group? If I create a user without specifying a group using the 'useradd' command, a new group with the same name as the user gets created. The "LINUX Standard Base" reference linked from the BLFS book has three of these users (bin, lp, and nobody), but also specifies a groups with the same names. So, I'm not sure what to do here. If I create these users, should I also create groups with the same names, and make sure no other user is assigned to those groups? If so, what should the numbers of those groups be? (Does it matter? Do the numbers for any of the users or groups, except root, matter?) Or is there some way to create a groupless user that has so far eluded me? Thanks for your help, Andrew
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