In a message dated 7/29/2003 11:24:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Every users belongs to one or several groups (ex: root, admin, user, > > www-user, staff). > > > > /etc/groups has the information on how much privilege each groups has. > > A user gets the privileges of the group(s) user belongs to. > > > > `man groups` has little detail. > > `info groups` details it all. > > > > Please correct me if I am wrong. > > Zahed > > > > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know what all the groups listed in /etc/groups mean? I tried > > > googling for it, but none of the links give me specific information. > > > > > > I was just wondering if anyone knows or if they have a link they found > > > somewhere that details it all. > > > /etc/group defines the groups on the system. (note: not plural) > It actually defines a mapping between the Group ID (GID) and the group name. > Files are stored with the GID and the system will sub the name when you > do a long listing for example. > > It also defines "auxilliary memebers" to each group, because > /etc/passwd defines the Username/UID/primary-GID for each user, so > each user starts off with a GID not defined in /etc/group. > > The actual values and names of groups varies from distro to distro, > and configuration. Many distros have too many groups IMHO for > things like fax, audio,news, etc.. These can lead to security problems > and chaos, but that again is opinion. You can usually > count on these > GID/groupname definitions: > > root:x:0: > daemon:x:1: > users:x:100: > > -Phil > I was looking more to find out what permissions each user group yields, etc. I see all the groups listed in /etc/group and have no clue what authorizations each group has... any clue ? _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
