Re: Group Identity Programming
Re: Group Identity Programming
- Subject: Re: Group Identity Programming
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:15:10 -0400
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Jessica Billings
<email@hidden> wrote:
> What group is this referring to? If I made a local "test_group" and put the
> user in that, would it be the gid of "test_group"? What if the user is an
> many groups, both local and managed? This is the heart of my problem.
Users in UNIX have a single primary group and potentially multiple
secondary groups. The real gid of a user is that user's primary
group, unless it's been changed by setgid.
--Kyle Sluder
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