[buug] primary groups

f.johan.beisser jan at caustic.org
Sat Mar 22 14:59:30 PST 2003


On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, johnd wrote:

> Why are there primary groups in UNIX?

the easiest solution to this is to look at how you organise work groups.

> why not just have users and groups?

that would be much more limiting.

> users can be added groups and not need a primary group.

you can implement this buy creating "user" groups.

for example: my user is "jan", with my primary group "jan". i'm a member
of group(s): wheel, and operator.

this allows for some decent fine tuning of permissions and directories.

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