On 01/11/2016 03:30 AM, William Park wrote: > Just curious... > > I noticed that distros tend to create user account with unique UID and > unique GID (and usually both are the same id). For example, UID=1000 > and GID=1000. > > What is the reason behind it?
As I understand it, it's so you can give some, but not all, other users group access to your stuff. With a common GID, it's everyone or no one. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
