On Friday 05 August 2005 04:06 pm, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:21 +0200, Tim wrote: > > When creating a user I am wondering what is > > recommended when assigning a login group to the user. > > > > There are to alternatives, giving the user unique > > login group (same as his name) or giving the user a > > general login group such as users. > > > > What do you recommend? > > I, personally, always use a unique login group, and add the group > "users" as a secondary group. But, like a lot of other things, it really > depends on what you need, and what your users need.
That's what I typically do as well, primary group same as username. Then if the account is for a human it gets 'users' added as a secondary group. It matters in a few places, like sshd_config where I put something like this: AllowGroups users
