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Daouda LO wrote:
> andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 24 June 2003 10:42, Daouda LO wrote:
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>>>andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>>>On Monday 23 June 2003 19:00, Daouda LO wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>- Ability to put Uid and Gid manually when adding user/group
>>>>
>>>>I can do Uid but how do you do Gid?
>>>
>>>To be clearer:
>>>- You can choose manually an Uid for a user when adding him to the
>>> system
>>>
>>>- You can choose manually Gid when adding a group
>>> [Add Group] -> [Specify Group ID manually]
>>
>>But you can't select the Gid for the user.
>
>
> Nope.
> I don't see "added value" for this feature.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$ j=0; for i in `getent passwd |awk -F: '{
print $1}'`;do if [ "`id -gn $i`" == "$i" ];then j=$[j+1];fi;done;echo $j
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$ j=0; for i in `getent passwd |awk -F: '{
print $1}'`;do if [ "`id -gn $i`" != "$i" ];then j=$[j+1];fi;done;echo $j
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$ getent group users
users:x:100:
IOW, 18% of our users have a "private" primary group, none of them have
"users" as primary group, so what is the utility of "create a private
group for the user" if it doesn't allow the admin to choose the primary
group (by name would probably be better than by gid).
This becomes even more important with ldap support (ok, so most of the
accounts I showed were in LDAP, but when we were at 60 they were still
all local).
Regards,
Buchan
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