[buug] primary groups

[John de la Garza]

that is exactly what I was looking for...


thanks!


On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Jon McClintock wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:44:48PM -0800, johnd wrote:
>> Why are there primary groups in UNIX?
>>
>> why not just have users and groups?
>>
>> users can be added groups and not need a primary group.
>
> The primary group is used to specify which gid is used when a user
> creates a file. That's the one good use I can think of off the top of 
> my
> head...
>
> -Jon