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In my secure log there is a new group added that Im unsure about after adding semanage

I installed semanage onto my CentOS 6.2 box and I was going through my secure log after the install and noticed this entry: Aug 31 22:12:17 xxxx groupadd[12929]: group added to /etc/group: ...
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What does it mean to be in group 0?

Several users in a system I inherited have their group set to 0 in /etc/passwd. What does that mean? Do they essentially get full root privileges? The system is running CentOS 5, and the users ...
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How to maintain file ownership when running 'yum update'

I'm running CentOS 6.2 and installed nginx as root. After the install I changed the owner and group of the install to it's own user and group to keep thing a bit more secure. I logged in as root and ...