# What exactly does "Automatically set as primary group" do?

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**Created:** [May 6, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-does-automatically-set-as-primary-group-do/62222 "2017-05-06T15:55:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-does-automatically-set-as-primary-group-do/62222/3 "2017-05-06T19:30:23Z")

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4. So if I combine 1. and 2. that means that if I activate “Automatically set as primary group” for multiple existing groups, the order in which I do that matters (because the last one overwrites all previous ones (in case of overlapping membership), right?

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