** Description changed: - Ubuntu uses private user groups. + + Current behaviour is: + The "users" group exists but when setting up a (set group ID) groupdirectory (i.e. /home/group/users) it does not work as expected, because the users group is not populated (empty). + + Changed behaviour would be: + Users are added to the users group also when the (private) USERGROUP scheme is used, and a created users groupdir is functional. In order for the users to belong to the users group by default two solutions exist. 1) centrally add one line to /etc/security/group.conf (for dynamic addition to the group during login): *; *; *; Al0000-2400; users 2) change group membership off all existing users manually/scripted and modifying adduser defaults for new users to have them added to the users group. - There should be no security risk involved, because the users group has - not been used in the past. + There should be no security risk involved, because no files belonging to + users group are created by default and at the same time users is applied + as the primary group to users when disableing (private) USERGROUPS in + /etc/adduser.conf. - The users group is generally used as a group refering to all users to - make the user private group scheme work as designed. + The users group is generally used as a group refering to all users and + makes the user private group scheme work as designed. - (Context of this bugreport is - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement) + (Context of this issue is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement)
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