From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 03:57:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03190 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 03:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03170 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 03:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA19364; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:49:41 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V2.0) id xma019362; Wed, 14 Jan 98 13:49:38 +0200 Message-ID: <34BCA80C.1AA4@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:57:00 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Vagner CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groups References: <199801140909.DAA13787@epcot.spdc.ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk George Vagner wrote: > > where do i find a list of group names IE: wheel,network...etc... and > what each group allows or is for? > > Laszlo Vagner > Texas Instruments > Email:vagner@NOSPAM.ti.com > Pg. 598-5217 > Wk. 995-4297 The groups (and their members) are listed in /etc/groups. There's no predefined role or capabilities for each group, but it's rather based on convention. Basically, what groups are good for is applying the group field of a file's protection mask. For a discussion of how to use groups, see your favorite UNIX administration textbook. Nadav