Re: Yet more bugs in 0.91.
On Mar 2, 1994 Ian Jackson wrote:
> * /usr/src should be g+ws and group root or wheel. In general it
> would be nice if instead of having one group for all the users, each
> user had their own group (usually when this is done gid=uid, of
> course). This means that you can make the default umask 002 and have
> effective shared directories (like /usr/src wants to be - you
> shouldn't need to do all the source code management etc. as root)
> simply by making them g+ws and owned by the appropriate group. I
> suppose this suggestion is a bit late for 0.92 ...
What I do on my own system (and I find it works quite well) is to make
an src user and group (with /usr/src as the home dir), chown
everything in /usr/src to src.src, and make the umask 002, placing
anyone I want to give source code write permissions to into the src
group. It's nice to be able to separate that from the wheel group
(people who can su to root). I also prefer to do source code testing
as non-root (I usually use the src account to do this, rather than my
own). An alternate solution.
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