Re: [Cpu-users] Group Changes and CPU 1.4.1-RC1

[Lukas K. <lu...@kn...>]

Am Fr, 2003-09-19 um 13.52 schrieb Blake Matheny:

Hi!

Congrats in making cpu behave more like it's GNU equivalents. I tried to
test it right away, but somehow my testing-slapd died away (I'll try
again later).


>  - Allow violation of POSIX naming conventions (for use with Samba) by
>    specifying the -o switch

Thank you for this, again :)

> I would appreciate feedback if people think any of the above behaviors are
> incorrect. The other thing I have been thinking about, is what the behavior
> should be when a user is added and -g is not explicitly set. Should a group be
> generated with the same name as the user, and make the users primary group
> that? Should there be a setting in the configuration file that specifies a
> default group?

In Debian, there is /etc/adduser.conf, which contains

--- snip ---
# The USERGROUPS variable can be either "yes" or "no".  If "yes" each
# created user will be given their own group to use as a default, and
# their home directories will be g+s.  If "no", each created user will
# be placed in the group whose gid is USERS_GID (see below).
USERGROUPS=yes
                                                                                
# If USERGROUPS is "no", then USERS_GID should be the GID of the group
# `users' (or the equivalent group) on your system.
USERS_GID=100
--- snap ---

I would suggest to do it in a similar manner, so that the user can make
the choice. For example, AFAIR the default on SuSE-Linux is to have a
group 'users' set to every user's primary group, while the default in
Debian is to give each user his own group with uid=gid.


> As always, feedback (and bug-reports) are appreciated.
> 
> -Blake

-- 
bye
  Lukas