passwd & group question
2007-12-25 9:58:00
This is funny...as soon as I got home I figured the answer by myself.. :)
The question was..
Why do I have to re-specify a user's group (vice-versa) in /etc/group?
It's already specified in /etc/passwd..
Thanks to the MANY MANY people who replied..
The answer is simple...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO..
/etc/groups is used to specify SECONDARY groups for users, the PRIMARY
group is specified in /etc/passwd, so re-specifying is redundant.
For security matters and corruption of /etc/passwd is may be recommendable
to re-specify the PRIMARY group of a user in /etc/group so
/etc/passwd can be reconstructed easy.
Thanks again..
PD: sorry for the stupid question... :)
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