List of groups

[ewinters]

Hi there everyone:
I am new in the world of Linux. I have Redhat 6.0 installed on my home PC in a dual boot with Win98 SE. I was wondering where I might look to find a complete list of the default groups that come with Redhat Linux, and a description of what those groups are. I want to create user accounts, create groups, and add users to some of those
groups. I also want to create an account for myself that has all the same permissions and access as 'root', and I a different account that is equal to... say a general user.

[Strike]

From the Redhat 6.1 manual:


Table 2-1, Standard Users:

User UID GID Home directory Shell
root 0 0 /root /bin/bash
bin 1 1 /bin
daemon 2 2 /sbin
adm 3 4 /var/adm
lp 4 7 /var/spool/lpd
sync 5 0 /sbin /bin/sync
shutdown 6 0 /sbin /sbin/shutdown
halt 7 0 /sbin
mail 8 12 /var/spool/mail
news 9 13 /var/spool/news
uucp 10 14 /var/spool/uucp
operator 11 0 /root
games 12 100 /usr/games
gopher 13 30 /usr/lib/gopher-data
ftp 14 50 /home/ftp
nobody 99 99 /

Table 2-2, Standard Groups
Group GID Members
root 0 root
bin 1 root, bin, daemon
daemon 2 root, bin, daemon
sys 3 root, bin, adm
adm 4 root, adm, daemon
tty 5
disk 6 root
lp 7 daemon, lp
mem 8
kmem 8
wheel 10 root
mail 12 mail
news 13 news
uucp 14 uucp
man 15
games 20
gopher 30
dip 40
ftp 50
nobody 99
users 100
floppy 19


RedHat likes each other user to have their own username AND group, starting with 500 (I think). So, my first non-root account will be UID 500 and GID 500. The next will have UID 501, GID 501, and so on.

To create a root-like user, just create a user with a UID of 0.

[ewinters]

Thanx I appreciate the help! :-)
Originally posted by Strike:
From the Redhat 6.1 manual:

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Table 2-1, Standard ~SNIP~

To create a root-like user, just create a user with a UID of 0.