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From: sdejarne@polyslo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: leaving users out of login group
Message-ID: <839@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 02:44:31 EST
Article-I.D.: polyslo.839
Posted: Sat Dec  5 02:44:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 23:03:35 EST
References: <2652@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <14102@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Reply-To: sdejarne@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett)
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In article <14102@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Schizophrenic Solipsist) writes:
>Christopher Lott writes:
>
>) My question:  Has  anyone tried leaving users _out_ of their login
>) group in /etc/group to reduce the size of the group file?  
>
>I never include a user in the line of /etc/group which corresponds to
>the group they are assigned in /etc/passwd.  No problem.

	We have never included users in the line of /etc/group that corresponds
to their login group (group defined in /etc/passwd).  We only include them in 
other groups.  Cuts down on the size of the /etc/group file.


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