[CS-FSLUG] Users & Groups

[Christopher Rose]

I am unfamiliar with slackware. However, on my computer (a Red Hat 9 system), user "tofferer" is in the users group. I do not have any problems with running my machine this way. My only problem is finding the needed files to run DVD's.



----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb at verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:45:06 -0700
To: christiansource at ofb.biz
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Users & Groups

> Question:
> 
> After installing my Slackware 10 system and rebooting, I come to the login: 
> prompt. At this point the only user is root, so I login as root. Then I 
> create an account for user "jerry". The system tells me that jerry belongs to 
> the group "users". My question is, is this the preferred group for user 
> "jerry"? Or, should I create a group called "jerry" and add user "jerry" to 
> group "jerry"? In other words, is the default group "users" a good practice, 
> or is it better to create another group? How do all of you guys & gals handle 
> this?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> jerry
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