[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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