GUI added users not added to the "users" group.

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:04 AM, sudormminusrf yeah
<sudormminusrf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed today that users added using the GUI tool are not added to the the
> general "users" group. In fact not even the user added at installation is
> added to the "users" group.
>
> I assumed that the users group existed for all "human" users. I could see
> why users created with "useradd" would not automatically get added to the
> "users" group, but GUI added users are most of the time going to be human.
>
> Is this a bug or by design?

By design.

You can change this behavior by editing "/etc/login.defs" and setting
"USERGROUPS_ENAB=no".