SUMMARY: passwd & group question

From: Marcelo Maraboli (maraboli@llico.disca.utfsm.cl)
Date: Thu Apr 18 1996 - 09:21:42 CDT

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Hello admins...

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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