Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!preece%fang@gswd-vms.Gould.COM From: preece%fang@gswd-vms.Gould.COM (Scott E. Preece) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Setting up groups Message-ID: <10863@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 15 Dec 87 19:17:43 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 18 From: Mark Rosenthal> Also, note that the group in /etc/passwd is not any more special than > any of the groups you belong to by virtue of being mentioned in > /etc/group. In 4.?bsd, there is really no longer any reason to have any > group information in /etc/passwd. ---------- Well, almost. The accounting system still records a gid with each accounting record and that is the one from the passwd file entry (unless it has been changed). So if you want to do accounting by groups, you still need something like newgrp to switch the user into the correct group when appropriate. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@Gould.com