This one time, at band camp, Daniel Migowski said: > Hello Stephan, > > Thank you for your enlightening response.
I'm glad it was helpful. > Stephen Gran schrieb: > > This one time, at band camp, Daniel Migowski said: > > > If I am wrong, then this is a bugreport for uncomprehensible > > > documentation, > > > since this says: > > > > > > --ingroup GROUP > > > Add the new user to GROUP instead of a usergroup or the default > > > group defined by USERS_GID in the adduser.conf file. > > > > > > And i wonder, what differs "GROUP" from "a usergroup", btw. > > > > It is sort of an arbitrary way of thinking about it, it's true. The > > split is: > > peter has some admin defined group as primary (cdrom) > > peter has a primary group same as username (peter - this is a usergroup) > > peter has the same primary group as all other users (group users) > > > > Does that help? Or do you have a better wording for the documentation? > > It helps. I wasn't aware of the primary/secondary group concept. And my > try for a better wording of the documentation is this (This is what I > would have understood better, but I am no linux guru, so if this is too > obvious its okey for me know.): > > Set the new users primary group to GROUP instead of creating a new > usergroup and using this as the primary group or using the default group > defined by USERS_DIG in the adduser.conf file. If you just want to add > the new user to other secondary groups, use "adduser <user> <group>" > after creating the user. Something like that seems reasonable, I agree. I will add a note to the documentation that --ingroup does not add additional groups, it affects the user's primary group. From my point of view, I thought that was obvious enough not to need to be stated explicitly, but I apparently have the blinders of having worked with this stuff for too long, and have to be corrected :) Thanks for the report, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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