Users and Groups

[Timothy Murphy]

Steve Searle wrote:

>> I don't like to feel that Linux is not telling me something
>> because it doesn't think it is good for me.
> 
> What, like hidden files?

You mean, files whose names start with "."?
I must say, that is not one of my favourite aspects of Unix.
I was trying to think if it was always like that?
(I go back to Unix edition 5.)

But in this case it seemed to be suggested
that one shouldn't see the whole of /etc/group
as "you don't need to know about that".
I like to decide for myself what I need to know.