On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
Has nothing to do with breaking the 'UID and GID must match' meme. Groups are for groups, not a secondary indicator of ownership. Use 'em to _group_ users (this should not come as a brilliant insight).
The whole "user-private group" thing was done, IIRC, out of the hope that it would help confused users to have the proper permissions and ownerships created on new files.
The documentation on it from Red Hat is here:http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-5.0-Manual/user-guide/ doc079.html
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