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Date:      Wed, 6 May 1998 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephane Raimbault <segr@segr.ml.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User groups
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506165908.6723L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506162326.1890A-100000@segr.ml.org>

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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Stephane Raimbault wrote:

> Hello, I was simply wondering how to change a users default group to his
> username.

1.  Create a group in /etc/group with the user's username and a unique
gid.  
2.  Change the fourth field in the password file to match (the second of
the two numbers, use vipw). 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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