What are the groups 'users' and 'other' for?
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There is a proprietary document about system hardening/security standard stating that group
users
, nogroup
, other
, and some other groups should not contain any user except system administrators.
I've found an explanation about nogroup
group [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22520/what-is-nogroup-groups-purpose) .
What about the users
and other
groups and what are they for?
Why regular (non-administrator) users should not be member of these groups?
Distro is, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Asked by fikr4n
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Nov 29, 2016, 07:21 AM
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