On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> useradd really does that?  A new group for every user?  I think that
>> is stupid behaviour.  But I will think about if we should this in the
>> script.
>
> I agree, it is stupid behaviour.
>
> FWIW, adduser(8) may be doing this, but by default useradd(8) adds a new
> user to the "users" group which is what I would expect from the install
> script too.
[...]

I second that. IMHO, creating so many groups when "users" suffices is
not needed. Adding new users to "users" group by default also helps in
better and simplified privilege management.

-Amarendra

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