Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

["Eray Ozkural \(exa\)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Brian May wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "exa" == exa  <Eray> writes:
> 
>     exa> Brian May wrote:
>     >> - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist.
> 
>     exa> I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
>     exa> annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that
>     exa> reall necessary?
> 
> I don't do that on my machine here. Just edit /etc/adduser.conf
> Previously you had to be careful that the default umask was setup
> correctly, not sure if this is an issue or not now.

Yep. I discovered that umask issue. I guess it's still a problem.

Thanks,

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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo