[olug] user management

[Mike Peterson CoxMail]

 What distro are you using?

I use Red Hat and CentOS.
They both do what you want as a default.
I would have to check my useradd defaults and see how they compare to yours.


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Jake
Churchill
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:40 AM
To: OLUG
Subject: [olug] user management

When adding users using 'useradd' it pulls the default information from the
/etc/default/useradd file.  Mine is as follows:

GROUP=100
HOME=/home
INACTIVE=-1
EXPIRE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SKEL=/etc/skel
GROUPS=video,dialout

My issue is that when I create a user, it adds them with the default group
as users, which is GID 100.  What do I need to change to ensure that when I
add a user, it specifies them with the group that is equal to their user
name.  For example, user john needs to be added and his primary group must
be john, rather than users.  Is there a way to alter this file so that it
does that and so that it automatically sets the home directory to
/home/john. 

I'm trying to figure out how to do this dynamically rather than specify
everything manually.

thanks
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