# 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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**Author:** ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-does-automatically-set-as-primary-group-do/62222/4 "2017-05-06T20:42:56Z")

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> [@tophee](#):
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> 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?

Yes, in my case I have a single user in 2 primary groups. When I set the 2nd group as primary in his user setting the last group (2nd) became the primary

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