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I'm creating an LDAP structure, part of which, obviously, is group membership. Things such as vdi-user, vmware-user, etc.

When creating these groups, is it more proper to use singular or plural for the group name?

Eg. vdi-user or vdi-users?

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  • What's the worst that can happen when you choose the "less proper" scheme? Does it really make a difference?
    – Kamil Maciorowski
    Commented Dec 19, 2023 at 10:10

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Most groups are singular, and dont say user.

Some examples:

wheel, adm, sudo, audio, io, dialout, console.

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  • I should specify that I added user because there would be multiple group levels. Eg. vdi-user and vdi-admin. What about in this case? Also the groups are not purely for posix permissions. They are also for search bases for ldap enabled applications.
    – cclloyd
    Commented Jan 27, 2021 at 16:32
  • some things may not like minuses in the names, but that's better than spaces.
    – Jasen
    Commented Jan 27, 2021 at 20:52
  • Spaces weren't allowed. It must match [A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z_\-\.]+[A-Za-z0-9]
    – cclloyd
    Commented Jan 27, 2021 at 21:28
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At least Linux distributions such as Debian and Slackware have a group called users.

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