Thread: Enterprise Linux 5.x / 6.x --- Useradd Default Options --- Query

Below is USERADD man page excerpt :-

-n A group having the same name as the user being added to the system will be created by default. This option will turn off this Red Hat Linux specific behavior. When this option is used, users by default will be placed in hatever group is specified in /etc/default/useradd. If no default group is defined, group 1 will be used.

I need info for the BOLD part, and please post after performing practically.

Not sure what you don't understand, the way I read that is if you use the '-n' option with useradd - the user will be added in what ever is defined in /etc/default/useradd.

On my RHEL 5 system my /etc/default/useradd file contains GROUP=100. So users added with -n will go into the default group 'Users - 100'. Which is the default on other distros I think.

If that parameter was NOT in the /etc/default/useradd file - then the default group would be 'bin - 1'. Which would not be a recommend group for standard users.

So make sure you have your default defined correctly in /etc/default/useradd when using the option -n.

Unless I'm missing something?

System:-RHEL 5.2
i removed GROUPS directive from /etc/default/useradd and thereby created a new user account with '-n' option, which added the newuser to GID=100 (users) and not to GID=1(bin)...

Sounds like the man page is miss leading then, what is your issue anyway?

ISSUE was from the starting BOLD TEXT highlighting and not able to implement same ...