Rupert Heesom on Wed, 2 May 2001 11:33:09 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] LPIC: User groups in Linux


On 02 May 2001 10:28:50 -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:43:47AM -0400, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> They don't mean the same thing by "default" that you do. You're
> talking about the group field in /etc/passwd. They're talking about
> the egid.

What is the "egid"?  Do you mean "GUID"?

> 
> This sentence is misleading:
> > group, he would then have write permission to the directory after he
> > makes the humres group his default group.
> 
> ... but the point is that the new group won't show up for George
> until he either preforms a chgrp to it or logs back in after he's
> been added to the correct line in /etc/group.

Ahhh, I thought that might be the answer!  Thanks for that.

I must say, LOTS of stuff in the LPIC Prep Kit 101 that I'm using to
prepare for this exam is misleading.  Even some of the stuff is
CONTRADICTORY, or just plain WRONG (according to what I know and
practice on my linux console screen).  The practice test is even worse,
this is a small example of the wierd questions they have, then some
questions are graded incorrectly!

-- 
regs
rupert


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