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In Fedora, why do users get their own groups beyond just "users" ? For example, when you make a user account on installation, say "daniel," there is an associated "daniel" group and the default permissions for daniel's files are to assign group ownership to "daniel," not "users."
Fine-tuning? Having a different group for each user would seem to allow for more refined access control than placing all users into a single group. Any changes made to the users group would affect all users, not so if they all have a group of their own.
I also suspect that users is one of the supplementary groups which daniel is a member of. Use id -a to check. I'm not a fedora user, so please correct me if I'm wrong!
It also creates a more private (safer?) user 'environment'.
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