[olug] user management

[Jake Churchill]

To answer all the questions:

I use SuSE 9.3 and it's default is GID 100 "users".  I don't like that
default though because then by default, every user has read access to
the other users' directories.

the GID min is 1000 and max is 60000 in my /etc/login.defs file.  I know
that RedHat defaults the group to the username for additional security
and Mandrake has copied this (I think).  I supposed I could write a
script in perl to just do everything for me, but that's still not
changing the system default which was my ultimate goal.

If anyone has any additional thoughts, please share.

Thanks!

Brammer, Phil wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:40:06AM -0600, Jake Churchill wrote:
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>>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. 
>>...
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>Just some thoughts...
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>Take a look at your /etc/login.defs file...  What values do you have for GID_MIN and GID_MAX?  Aside from the GROUPS entry you have in your /etc/default/useradd file, it is the same as mine on FC3.
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>I would guess that you are not on a Red Hat-based system though...  Red Hat modified useradd to automatically create a group name the same as the user name by default.
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>Phil
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