default user creation

[Larson, Timothy E.]

>useradd username -g users
>
>Will create an account but make the user part of the users group in YDL.

I am aware of that.  
It's an annoying extra thing to remember to do.

>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.

I don't like private user groups.  
I want users with the default "users" group.  
The useradd man page says I can do this, useradd -D -g users, but it doesn't work.  
Is RH/YDL broken, or what?

Tim

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