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

To: "Eray Ozkural \(exa\)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user
From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Date: 26 Dec 2000 14:20:28 +1100
Message-id: <[🔎] 84snnbhnr7.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au>
In-reply-to: "Eray Ozkural's message of "Tue, 26 Dec 2000 04:43:53 +0200"
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>>>>> "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.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>

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