On Monday 27 August 2007, Mick wrote: > > There's two ways of doing this, either new users all have the same > > inital primary group, or they get one based on their user name. The > > second is preferred as homw dirs are then not open by default like > > they would be if they were all owned by the users groups, and the > > user sets a umask of 0002 > > From what you're saying the current default Gentoo set up is to have > a separate primary group, based on the user's name. Was this the > case 3-4 years ago?
Dunno :-) I haven't been a gentooite for that many years yet > > You can actually do it any way you want and that suits your needs, > > but the current gentoo default is a sane default. CHange it if you > > want with the usual tools to manipulate > > /etc/passwd|group|shadow|gshadow > > I am aware of these files, but what tools are the "usual tools"? ch* and other user/group related commands out of sys-apps/coreutils -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
