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

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 3 Aug 2014 08:08:09 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 3 August 2014 07:04, 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.
> 
> I don't think the users group has any great significance in Ubuntu.
> At least I am not aware of any.

There has been a general movement *away* from using the 'users' group as a 
default group to put normal users in.  The current logic is to put each user 
in a group of their own.  That is, for user 'a', one creates a group 'a' with
one member, 'a'.  This is an enhanced security in terms of making user a's 
files inaccessable by user b.

> 
> Colin
> 

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