On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:03 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. > > While one might agree or disagree about that, IMHO the problem now is > that the options in /etc/default/useradd are ignored. If I run > useradd -D it shows GROUP=100, but running useradd <username> still > creates a new group named after the user and puts the user into it. > Exactly my point! :) You were ahead of me with this reply, but it came here after I sent my previous message. Sorry for the noise and redundancy. > After a little search, it seems that the USERGROUPS_ENAB directive > in /etc/login.defs, although not explicitly mentioning this issue, is > the culprit. Setting it to "no" restores the old behavior (putting > the new users into group "users"). > Big thanks! That's exactly what I needed. ;-)))) -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
