Default user groups

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 11:46 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > When you use the user add gui it puts that user into a group with his
> > username as the group name. Then you can use chgrp to put that user into
> > any group you want to.
> 
> Sure, but I'm after a way to specify what groups a user should be
> added to by default, when a new user is created (in the same way that
> by default, a new user is added to their own group).
> 
> For example, /etc/default/useradd specifies what GROUP, SHELL, HOME,
> etc a new user should have, but it doesn't seem to have any option for
> what secondary GROUPS the user should have.
> 
> It would be great to be able to change the default behaviour, so that
> users are added to specific groups by default, without the need to
> manually apply this post useradd. This way all default Fedora scripts
> and tools which use the useradd command should just work..
> theoretically ;-)
> 
> There's also /etc/login.defs, but I can't see any option for
> specifying default groups there either..
> 
> -c

How about a shell script that envokes adduser and then one or more chgrp
commands.
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