Re: Rational for debian group accounts
Hi,
>>"Jean" == Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> writes:
Jean> Garfinkel and Spafford in their book "Practical UNIX & Internet
Jean> Security" consider the Debian scheme of assigning a unique group
Jean> to each individual user to be a bad idea from a security
Jean> perspective.
Guy has already supplied the rationale. Could you share with
us what the security concerns are? I have just spent 10 minutes
hunting through the book here, I could not see it in the obvious
places (chapter 2, 3, and 4).
manoj
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