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I can't delete a file that I have write permissions for as a group member
$ touch testfile
$ chmod g+w testfile
$ sudo adduser user2 user1
$ stat -c'%a %A' testfile
664 -rw-rw-r--
$ su user2
Password:
$ groups
user2 user1
$ rm testfile
rm: cannot remove `testfile': ...
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Why is Debian not creating the 'wheel' group by default?
It appears to be Unix tradition that a wheel group is created automatically, but Debian (and children, naturally) doesn't do so. Is there a rationale somewhere? Where else have you seen this tradition ...
