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

[P. vanderWal]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: GUI added users not added to the "users" group.


> 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.
>
> Colin
>
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