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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 (1001 rep)
Nov 29, 2016, 07:21 AM
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