Question about /etc/group

David Tonhofer redhatter at m-plify.net
Fri Jul 27 16:55:01 UTC 2007


Hello,

I have a simle detail question:

  Sometimes users are registered as being secondary members of the group 
that is their primary group - why is that so?

For example:

User "uucp" has as primary group the group with gid 14:

   uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/sbin/nologin

And group 14 is group "uucp". However, the user is also listed as being 
a secondary member of that group:

   uucp:x:14:uucp

Which is pretty pointless. Or not?

Best regards,

 -- David




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