GROUPS(7) | Miscellaneous Information Manual | GROUPS(7) |
groups
—
Users who are not in the group wheel are never allowed by su(1) to gain root privileges.
The disk device nodes in /dev such as /dev/rwd0a are in the group operator and group-readable so users in the group can read from disk devices, for example with dump(8). The tape device nodes in /dev such as /dev/rst0 are in the group operator and are both group-readable and group-writable so users in the group can write to tape devices.
The shutdown(8) program is executable only by root and members of the operator group.
Default primary group for new users, as set in the default
usermgmt.conf(5)
file. Some administrators may instead prefer to assign to each user a
unique group with the same name as the user by passing the
‘-g
=uid
’
option to useradd(8).
April 2, 2020 | NetBSD 10.1 |