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Currently in CentOS 7 the root user's primary group is root. What harm would there be in changing roots primary group to group.

usermod -a -g group root

The purpose just to clarify in case there is a much better way of handling this is to make sure the ownership is set to root:group instead of root:root without having to add chown after every single file is created.

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  • Is your intention to have all of the files that currently have root:root ownership to be transformed into root:group ownership? Or is your question about the effects of altering the root user's default group? – toppledwagon May 07 '18 at 04:04
  • @toppledwagon I do not have any intention of changing the root:root ownership of current files. I am only interested in the effects of altering the root user's primary group. – syntencoist May 07 '18 at 14:51
  • I've never tried this, but I can't think of any ill effects. Of course that doesn't mean that there aren't any! Is this just a curiosity or do you have an application for this in mind? – toppledwagon May 07 '18 at 18:05

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