Re: Changing group ownership for entire home folder:

On 2024-01-22 02:03, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:

(install was maybe 2 years ago on this particular machine). I honestly do not know why each user after the supposed first user added to the OS *has* to become a member of the users group. I noticed all of this while doing some minor work in user account deb. I noticed that I was able to cd into /home/paul and subdirectories without any problem (from user deb).

YaST/User and Group Management/Defaults for New Users By default, ever new user is added to group users -- and there is no way you can prevent that.