Debian user defaults.
Does Debian 3.1 use the usual your uid is your gid standard?? The useradd tools seem to be creating users with their gid set to users(100). Is this normal? Personally I prefer the uid==gid approach that RH uses. Is there a setting I can change on debian? I'm very new to debian so I have no idea where to look. Regards -- Oliver Jones > Roving Code Warrior > www.deeperdesign.com
On 14/09/05, Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeperdesign.com> wrote:
Does Debian 3.1 use the usual your uid is your gid standard?? The useradd tools seem to be creating users with their gid set to users(100). Is this normal?
Personally I prefer the uid==gid approach that RH uses. Is there a setting I can change on debian? I'm very new to debian so I have no idea where to look.
'man useradd' on my debian shows you can alter the default group easily enough...
Personally I prefer the uid==gid approach that RH uses. Is there a setting I can change on debian? I'm very new to debian so I have no idea where to look.
Edit /etc/adduser.conf and set USERGROUPS=yes Incidentally, this was the existing behaviour on both of my debian sarge and ubuntu hoary installations, and I'm fairly sure I didn't change it. There might have been a debconf question during the installation however. Or else there's a bug and that configuration file isn't being read properly.
Everything seems to be in order on the server. I think this might have been a side effect of upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1. I'll see what happens with any future users I add. Thanks for the tips. Regards On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:05 +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:
Personally I prefer the uid==gid approach that RH uses. Is there a setting I can change on debian? I'm very new to debian so I have no idea where to look.
Edit /etc/adduser.conf and set USERGROUPS=yes
Incidentally, this was the existing behaviour on both of my debian sarge and ubuntu hoary installations, and I'm fairly sure I didn't change it. There might have been a debconf question during the installation however. Or else there's a bug and that configuration file isn't being read properly.
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