From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 17 07:00:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA12857 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from destiny.waverider.co.uk (destiny.waverider.co.uk [194.207.28.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA12850 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyc@waverider.net.uk) Received: from auden (zephania.waverider.net.uk [194.207.148.99]) by destiny.waverider.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA19062; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:58:29 +0100 (BST) From: "Andy Cowan" To: "Darius Ramanauskas" , "Troy Settle" Cc: Subject: Re: /etc/group limit Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:58:57 +0100 Message-ID: <01bcdb04$d08af110$6394cfc2@auden.waverider.net.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Its isn't a bug according to man adduser. In fact - it makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Andy >> I was once told the reason for why FreeBSD defaults to adding each user to >> his own group, but I fail to remember why. Also, I fail to understand why a >> user must be added to the group file if his group is already assigned in the >> passwd file. >> > >It is a bug of adduser script, someone told me it will be changed in next >release. >