On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:30:48PM -0400, System Administrator wrote: > On 7 May 2009 at 21:06, patrick keshishian wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:25 PM, patrick keshishian > > <pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Theo de Raadt > > <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: > > >> The newest snapshots that are headed out have a new install script > > based > > >> on heavy modifications by a bunch of developers over the last 3 > > weeks. > > >> > > >> We would like to start getting feedback from people about these > > changes. > > > > > > > > > I just grabbed an i386 snapshot and started the install process at > > > work. I didn't much time to pay too close of an attention to it as > > I > > > need to get a sandbox going really quickly for tomorrow. but, I > > liked > > > how when presented with the enter a username question it catches > > the > > > incorrect "yes" answer by a reply along the lines of "no, really > > ... > > > enter a username" :) > > > > > > Cute! > > > > > > I also liked the listing of sets better. It takes up less screen > > space. > > > > > > so one thing I noticed after I went to work this morning to the now > > finished install (I left it during installing of the sets) is that > > the > > user that was created during installation was added to the "users" > > group, and no new group by the same name as username was added to > > /etc/group. > > > > i.e., when one does adduser and add a new user say "patrick", by > > default adduser wants to add "patrick" to a group "patrick" (or at > > least this has been the case every since I've been using obsd). > > Also, > > never have I seen "patrick" added to group "users" via adduser(8). > > > > The installation script didn't add "patrick" to group "patrick" but > > by > > default added "patrick" to "users" group. > > > > Is this expected? desired? > > > > --patrick > > > > > > Patrick, > > are you sure you are not confusing this with some Linux system? I've > found this moronic group=user behavior to be the standard on all Linux > systems, but have never experienced it in OpenBSD. > > -Jacob.
Hi Jacob, As pointed out by Martin Gignac I'm not confusing systems, as well as suggested by Antoine Jacoutot it is adduser that behaves this way and not useradd. I have not verified the latter independently. Also wanted to note that Slackware distribution of Linux didn't behave this way. The last version of Slackware I used was 12.something. I didn't particularly care for creating a new group with each user added, but just like Martin Gignac, I didn't want to deviate from OpenBSD "defaults". It seems that this behavior isn't desired by obsd developers either :-) Cheers, --patrick
