The primary (default) group of a user is the one whose ID is given in
/etc/passwd.  All other groups are secondary; files created by the
user will belong to the primary group by default.

Regards,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Shridhar" == Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Shridhar> Hi If you are unfamiliar with text editing, then use
    Shridhar> kuser or something similar to that.

    Shridhar> Else look at /etc/group and /etc/passwd and you will
    Shridhar> understand.

    Shridhar> I am stumped about default user. Never occurred to me...

    Shridhar>  Bye Shridhar

    Shridhar> Sameer Pokarna wrote:

    >> Hi All,
    >> 
    >> How does a user become a member of multiple groups?  And how do
    >> I set the default group of the person? That is, when the user
    >> creates a file in the file system, what is the default
    >> user/group used if this user is in multiple groups?
-- 
Raju Mathur          [EMAIL PROTECTED]           http://kandalaya.org/

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