Hi: Once with slackware 12.0 I had all dirs in /home with user_name:user_name. If the username was foo, then I had foo:foo. Now in 14.0 I see they are foo:groups. What is the difference between the two settings as regards functionality and what is that group 'groups'?

A related question: I have directory /almacen, which every user should be able to access. Who must be the owner and who the group owner?

Please don't tell me I'm destroying the LFH.

EDIT:
ERRATA: It says groups. It should say users.

For a long time, the default was <user>:users; in fact, it was that back in 12.0 if you used the adduser script. I guess that you added your users by hand.

Users within a common group can make files accessible to each other by marking the group permissions accordingly. Putting all the users in the same group simplifies that; all you have to do is change file permissions which the owning user can do by himself. If each user is in its own group, the administrator must add one user to the other's group in order for those two users to share files via group permissions.

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I have just done \chown --recursive estefan34:users /almacen >/dev/null but still have console output. Well, this is another subject. Thank for information, Richard.

And what is the standard permissions for his case, I'd like to know.

EDIT: I know, redirecting stderr to /dev/null.