Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2019-01-13 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 6:13 AM Bryan Harris wrote: > Is there also a difference when creating a file in a folder with set GID > bit on that folder and owned by secondary group? I think in normal > behavior, if folder allows a user to create a file (sec. group w/ 770 > perm.) then the new file gr

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2019-01-13 Thread Bryan Harris
On 12/30/2018 12:33 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:29 AM Ipsen S Ripsbusker < ip...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, compared to secondary groups? Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary group

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2018-12-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:29 AM Ipsen S Ripsbusker < ip...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: > Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, > compared to secondary groups? > > Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary groups > rather than only secondary groups? > >

Re: Purpose of primary and secondary user groups

2018-12-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 07:27:48PM +, Ipsen S Ripsbusker wrote: > Aside from compatibility, what is the purpose of primary groups, > compared to secondary groups? > > Said otherwise, why do we have both primary and secondary groups > rather than only secondary groups? > > Yet another phrasin