On Sat, 7 May 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Yes this is expected behaviour. /etc/group lists secondary group > memberships, /etc/passwd (and related files) list the primary groups. > > Most of the tools you're using to investigate group membership > (groupinfo, getent etc) only list secondary groups. > > "id katia" is showing first the primary group (gid=31), and then a > list of all groups this user has permissions for (either primary > or secondary).
When you use useradd -g =uid, the primary group is created and the user put into it. # groupadd kiki # useradd kiki # groupinfo kiki name kiki passwd * gid 1001 members versus # useradd -g =uid kiki # groupinfo kiki name kiki passwd * gid 1001 members kiki -- Antoine
