Thus it was written in the epistle of [log in to unmask],
> Linux groups are not our MPE groups... but how important are they, for
> vanilla users?

Not very.  They are important, rather, for sys admins (coffee users ;-).

> Is there a real advantage, especially for a normal user, to belonging to its
> very own eponymous group? Am I likely to want to add group attributes,
> solely for one user? Or, on the assumption that I am going to later want
> another user very much like this first one?

No.  In fact, there is real advantage to not having such a situation.  Unix
groups are a broader way to assign access and if every user is in his own
group, they gain nothing over assigning access by user.  Where one would put
a user into its own group is "system users"--www, nobody and suchlike.

Primarily, group membership gets you access to files, but it is quite possible
to use it for other reasons.  As an example, belonging to wheel group is
necessary for root access on many systems.  Also, remember that a given user
can belong to multiple groups.

Ted
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