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Sophos under linux: files group sophos-av?

Krischu

A colleague is running Sophos under Ubuntu Linux and he came to me wondering why e.g. newly created (edited file by vim)

has group sophos-av instead of his own group?

Also many of his files appear to have sophos-av group ownership.

Why? Is that normal?

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Christoph

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    Hey Christoph,

    The group created by the SAV installer is actually 'sophosav' not 'sophos-av' - I guess that was just a typo?  

    Anyway it sounds like your colleagues' account may have their primary group set to sophosav for some reason.  I couldn't tell you why this happened though - SAV itself shouldn't actually change your group membership.

    Can they run the id command to view their group information?  Example:

    $ id

    uid=1000(user1) gid=1001(sophosav)

    If the primary group is wrong you'll need to change it (as root) by running the command below.

    It's likely they'll need to log off and back on for it to take effect.

    $ usermod -g <group> <user>

    Hope this helps!
    Tom.

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    Hey Christoph,

    The group created by the SAV installer is actually 'sophosav' not 'sophos-av' - I guess that was just a typo?  

    Anyway it sounds like your colleagues' account may have their primary group set to sophosav for some reason.  I couldn't tell you why this happened though - SAV itself shouldn't actually change your group membership.

    Can they run the id command to view their group information?  Example:

    $ id

    uid=1000(user1) gid=1001(sophosav)

    If the primary group is wrong you'll need to change it (as root) by running the command below.

    It's likely they'll need to log off and back on for it to take effect.

    $ usermod -g <group> <user>

    Hope this helps!
    Tom.

    :26543
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