[Linux-Discussion] Re: response
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:52:14 -0500
> I know that group membership is in the /etc/group file, but in the
> /etc/passwd file, the user id AND the group id are listed.
> I was able to compare the id's with the one in the /etc/group file. If
> you read my earlier email of 8 minutes ago, which maybe I should have
> previously written, there were 2 accounts with the same gid but
> different names.
> That problem no longer exists.
Having two accounts with the same gid is perfectly normal -- that's the
idea of a group.
John
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