Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ishmael!cball
From: cball@ishmael.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: leaving users out of login group
Message-ID: <143300002@ishmael>
Date: 8 Dec 87 15:03:00 GMT
References: <2652@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Nf-From: ishmael.UUCP!cball    Dec  8 10:03:00 1987



We have left default group entries out of /etc/group for years.  The only
potential problem is when people need to change their login group.  My
predecessor wrote a utility "chdgrp" to change default/login groups.  It
removes the username from the new default group while deleting it from the
old one.  It solves this problem while allowing users to directly change
their own login group on our BSD systems.


	Charles