On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:52:19PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:00:21 +0100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > > > Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a > > similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is > > to create a group for each user name that is created. I don't know why > > it does this. It seems to me that a users group would be a more logical > > way to go. But I'm sure that "the powers that be" have a good reason for > > configuring it this way. Anyway it seems to me the the groups idea is > > largely irrelevant and ignored by most people. I suppose that the only > > reason it is not done away with is that it has been hard coded into the > > unix from day one. > > It's basically to allow people to work on shared projects (where the > project has a group) and have a sane default umask. See: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/09/msg00715.html
This post makes a good point. Thanks for the link. > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html > > HTH, > Reid > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
