I'm teaching RH033 this week, and thought I could handle anything that would
get thrown at me.

Then one student noticed that root is a member of the following groups:

        root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel

and they asked the (what seems to me to be) obvious question: Why is root in
all these groups. after all, isn't root root ? Why does root need to be in
these groups ?

And I couldn't come up w/ an answer...

Admittedly I was tired (at the end of a rather long day).

is this "historic" in nature, and people are afraid to just remove the
unnecessary groups from root ? Or is there a real reason why root needs to be
in someone elses group ? (I can't even think of a historic reason why this
might need to be...)

Inquiring minds waht to know...

thx, and rgds,

-Greg Hosler

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