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Subject[offtopic] group file format
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In article <9802131854.AA22814@alpha.cs.uttyl.edu> you wrote:
> I am not sure if this question is kernel related, but I am guessing
> that security is compiled into the kernel.

Sorry, you guessed wrong. This has nothing to do with the kernel.

> Linux (RH 5.0 k-2.0.32) seems to add an entry (new group)
> for each user into the group file.

See
<http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RHL-4.2-Users-Guide-HTML/manual/doc072.html>
for why this is deliberate and a good idea.

> Is it a very big project to change this to the BSDi format,
> or a similar format for the groups file?

Probably

> How would I go about this?

You just edit the passwd and group files, then make sure you
change the group ownership of all files on the system. You
don't really want to do this.

--
Erik Corry erik@arbat.com

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