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From: preece%fang@gswd-vms.Gould.COM (Scott E. Preece)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Setting up groups
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Date: 15 Dec 87 19:17:43 GMT
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  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.
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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.

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scott preece
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