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Re: Bug#64605: Gets confused if repacking in user home directory



J. Currey wrote:
> When someone puts something in your directory (by virtue of their group
> membership), you can have (permission) to it since it will have your group as 
> the file's group membership. Otherwise someone in your group could make
> dot.files that you wouldn't like, nor could do anything about. Then again
>  why can they write in your directory....

The user group system does *not* advise you to add other users to a user
group. Your home directory is owned by your user group.

Why then, would other users be able to write to files to yuor home directory?
I don't think your reasoning makes sense.

-- 
see shy jo



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