Re: User group "users"

2022-01-22 Thread Toni Mas Soler
Please, note that's my own criteria. - Each new user must have their own group to prevent security issues. - Most of users are per-app users, following (more or less Android methods). So only real (login) users are added manually in the GID=100. Thus they can share what they want only who then wa

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Roberto C. Sánchez schrieb: >>> New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default. So, new >>> users are members of the group without having to be added to the group >>> in /etc/groups. That depends on your configuration. | # /etc/adduser.conf: `adduser' configuration. | # See adduse

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 ian 22, 14:49:09, Steve Keller wrote: > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, > but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason > to have it? > > >From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which every user was >

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Jan 2022 at 16:11:13 (+0100), Steve Keller wrote: > "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: > > > New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default. So, new > > users are members of the group without having to be added to the group > > in /etc/groups. > > Hmm, at least not on two Debia

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > > > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID > > > 100, > > > but by default no us

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Steve Keller
"Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: > New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default. So, new > users are members of the group without having to be added to the group > in /etc/groups. Hmm, at least not on two Debian systems (stretch and bullseye), I have running here: # cat /etc/debian_

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason to have it? >From old Unix insta

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, > but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason > to have it? > > >From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which eve

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Owlett [121129 13:21]: Russell L. Harris wrote: Check with local colleges. Snicker ;/ What are you saying? It was an editorial comment based past experience of a member of the public getting any useful information out of the two most prominent local t

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett [121129 13:21]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >Check with local colleges. > > Snicker ;/ What are you saying? Even if you are in a rural area, is there not a college (or "community college") within easy driving distance? Even a drive of, say, fifty miles each way, is not unre

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Brad Alexander
Richard, I just talked to Russ Woodman (k5tux) who used to run the Springfield LUG. He is trying to start up a semi-online group. The website is at http://417oss.org. You could check that out... --b On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> * slick.

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Russell L. Harris wrote: * slick.coo...@gmail.com [121129 05:00]: On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:20:01 PM UTC-5, Richard Owlett wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: From: "Richard Owlett" ... In my experience these gatherings serve mostly a social function, not a te

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
slick.coo...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I just found and joined this *new* lug started by a Joe Swietzer in Stotts City. Counting me, there are now 2 members, but who knows? Maybe we will grow into a good group. I started getting serious about learning and using Linux in May of this year. I've e

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-28 Thread David Williams
How do you compile Debian from the source code files? Sent from my iPad On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:34 PM, "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > * slick.coo...@gmail.com [121129 05:00]: >> On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:20:01 PM UTC-5, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM,

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
* slick.coo...@gmail.com [121129 05:00]: > On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:20:01 PM UTC-5, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: From: "Richard Owlett" ... >>> In my experience these gatherings serve mostly a social function, >>> not a technical/lea

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-11-28 Thread slick . cooper
On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:20:01 PM UTC-5, Richard Owlett wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: > > >> On this topic, is there someting near the Peoria Illinois area? > > > > > >> From: "Richard Owlett" > > > > > >> I knew of groups in the St. Louis and Kans

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Joshua "Youlysses" S. Grant
> Heheh. I spent my first 18 years in rural Missouri town 2 hours North > of K.C., population ~2000. I've lived in Missouri all my life, 15 in > the St. Louis metro. > > I attended one SLUG (St. Louis Linux Users Group) meeting while in St. > Louis, with my manager at the time, who was the SLUG

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2012 4:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: >>> On this topic, is there someting near the Peoria Illinois area? >> >>> From: "Richard Owlett" >> >>> I knew of groups in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. >> >> In my experience these gat

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: On this topic, is there someting near the Peoria Illinois area? From: "Richard Owlett" I knew of groups in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. In my experience these gatherings serve mostly a social function, not a technical/learni

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2012 9:39 AM, Chris wrote: > On this topic, is there someting near the Peoria Illinois area? > From: "Richard Owlett" > I knew of groups in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. In my experience these gatherings serve mostly a social function, not a technical/learning function. Are you

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Chris
On this topic, is there someting near the Peoria Illinois area? Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: "Richard Owlett" Date: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 9:26 am Subject: User group in SW Missouri? To: Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:18:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I live in

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:18:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I live in Springfield, Missouri. Only Linux users group I knew of died due to lack of interest. Googling around I've found these ones: http://www.kclug.org/ http://www.stllinux.org/ http://stclug.sluug.org/ http://hzwl

Re: User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:18:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I live in Springfield, Missouri. > Only Linux users group I knew of died due to lack of interest. Googling around I've found these ones: http://www.kclug.org/ http://www.stllinux.org/ http://stclug.sluug.org/ http://hzwlug.sluug.org/ M

Re: user group

2003-01-19 Thread Michael J. Denton
> I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user > in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? Yes and No :) By default users are created with shell access. I would suggest that when you create the new userid as a member of the user group you change the shell of

Re: user group

2003-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0800, Mike Thompson wrote: > I want to make some non-shell accounts and there is a group called user > in /etc/group. Is this group used for this purpose? I guess you mean 'users'. No. /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.html in unstable says: users