On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:47:31PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > BTW, there's probably some security justification in debian for the > current implementation that each user is in a separate group but what the > heck is that supposed to prevent? It means that users can all have an umask of 002, so that when several users work in the same group, they don't keep accidentally turning off group permissions. (Been there, hated that.) Richard Braakman