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<title>Creating passwd and group files</title>
<para>
In order for user and group root to be recognized and to be able to login,
it needs an entry in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. Besides the
In order for the user and group root to be recognized and to be able to login,
there needs to be an entry in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. Besides the
group root a couple of other groups are recommended and needed by
packages. The groups with their GID's below aren't part of any standard.
The LSB only recommends besides a group root a group bin to be present
with GID 1. Other group names and GID's can be chosen by the user. Well
written packages don't depend on GID numbers but just use the group
name, it doesn't matter all that much what GID a group has. Since there
name, since it doesn't matter all that much what GID a group has. Since there
aren't any standards for groups I won't follow any conventions used by
Debian, RedHat and others. The groups added here are the groups the
MAKEDEV script (the script that creates the device files in the /dev

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<para>
The installation of all the software is pretty straightforward and
a user will think it's so much easier and shorter to give the generic
you will probably think it's so much easier and shorter to give the generic
installation instructions for each package and only explain how to
install something if a certain package requires an alternate installation
method. Although I agree on that, I, however, choose to give the
method. Although I agree on that, I choose to give the
full instructions for each and every package. This is simply to avoid any
possible confusion and errors.
</para>
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