On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Hi, ppl
>
> I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via
> /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of
> concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple
> misuses like fork bombs by putting a limit (nproc) for group "users"
> and all other common groups ("games" etc.)
>
> Now that the behaviour of "useradd -m xyz" has changed from putting the
> newuser in group "users" ("xyz:users") to putting the user in a group
> with same name ("xyz:xyz") I would appreciate any advice on getting the
> old behavior back or any workaround to achieve the same goal - all
> users should be limited by default at creation time.
Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension.
Nevertheless, override the default behavior:
# useradd -m -g users xyz
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