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Authored by tembun_bk.ru on Sun, Dec 7, 9:01 PM.

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I'm not 100% sure whether every statement and group description is true for FreeBSD and its current state. Please, point out mistakes in my assumptions.

The group list is sorted by GID. All the group names from /usr/src/etc/group are described, except "uucp": honestly, I don't know what it is used for and what to say about it.

PR: 264966
Obtained from: NetBSD

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What should I do with the license? The page was not only imported, but changed for FreeBSD. I also did change some of the original parts.

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I'm not sure if I'm right about this one.

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I'm not quite sure about this one too. If I understand correctly, it must be somehow related to group "uucp" (which is missed), since on my machine /dev/cuau2 is owned by used "uucp" and in group "dialer".

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I'm not sure if it's really unused now. Didn't find much about it in /usr/src.

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As above.

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Didn't have any experience with it, just tried to deduce what it is used for :)

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That's only my guess described here. Maybe there is a different reason why there are "nogroup" and "nobody".

tembun_bk.ru marked an inline comment as not done.

'December' instead of 'Dec'.