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 > > /home/user_name1. No directory called user_name1 was created at the > > time. > > > > More recently, I created a new user, user_name2 and the ownership > > of /home/user_name2 became user_name2:user_name2 (the latter being a > > group for user_name2). Is this how it should be these days? If so > > then I assume that this is because of changes in the skeleton file > > over the years. > > 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? > 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"? Thanks for all the answers. -- Regards, Mick
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