default user creation (Larson, Timothy E.)

[Craig Richardson]

Tim,

useradd username -g users

Will create an account but make the user part of the users group in YDL.

However YDL/Red Hat uses user private groups by default, which in my opinion
is a better system.  Stick with it if you can and make the "users" group
membership for each user optional.

ie - after you've created an account with useradd username then do
usermod -G users username

After which the user will have their own group "username" and also be a
member of the "users" group.

Craig

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Craig Richardson
Systems Administrator
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science


On 11/6/03 1:02 PM, "yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
<yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

Message: 9
From: "Larson, Timothy E." <Larson.Timothy1@mayo.edu>
To: "'yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'"
<yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Subject: default user creation
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:21:53 -0500
Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com

I use "useradd -D -g users" to set the default group for new users, but it
doesn't stick.  New users are still created in a group with their own name.
Is useradd just broken, or what?

Thanks,
Tim

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