On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Brian May wrote: > > > > - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist. > > I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm > annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that > reall necessary? It's useful when you're in a development environment where you've got directories that are group writable. On the other hand, I'd guess most large-scale development projects now use CVS rather than group writable directories as a sharing mechanism. FWIW when I was a sysadmin I generally put all untrusted users in a single group (or divided them into classes of groups). Regards, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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