>I am not sure if this question is kernel related, but I am guessing
>that security is compiled into the kernel.
>Several years ago I worked on a BSDi unix machine.
>The group file, as I remember, did not have an entry
>for each user. I added a user's name to the group
>that the user was to be included in.
>Linux (RH 5.0 k-2.0.32) seems to add an entry (new group)
>for each user into the group file.
>Is it a very big project to change this to the BSDi format,
>or a similar format for the groups file?
>How would I go about this?
[This has nothing to do with the kernel. It's strictly a userspace issue.]
Red Hat chooses to be nonstandard ostensibly for security reasons. If you use
Red Hat's administration tools you can undo their work by manually editing
/etc/passwd and /etc/group and adding all users to the "users" group, for
example.
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