On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Kerry Baker wrote: > With Red Hat linux (and derivatives) useradd automatically creates a > group of the same name as the user.
I really don't know why they did this, maybe is slightly more "secure" for very small "shops" and for users who don't know what user/group access rights are for ? Anyway in an enterprise environment is generally preposterous to create one group for each user. > Its easy to permit access to a single user using chgrp and chmod if you > are the file owner. I don't think I understand what you mean here. > If you don't use Red Hat then perhaps you can convince your sysadmin to > create a group for each user manually. At least then you don't have to > continually bug him/her. (Of course a BOFH would balk at this > delegation of power :) I hope I'm not a BOFH :-) and I would certanly balk at this one. -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
