On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:32:35 -0500, Jan Morales <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I started using Unix a long time ago, before the practice of having one > group per user emerged. You used to have one group, e.g. "users", that > all users were members of and everyone's umask was 022. Now user "joe" > is a member of group "joe" and his umask is 02. Can someone point me to > a reference for the rationale for this scheme? I don't really understand > it yet. Thanks! This is a Red Hat convention, called User Private Groups (UPG), for which they modified the shadow-utils package (which includes the useradd command). The discussion about this feature is here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html -- Deron Meranda
