Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in
> directories shared with other users (but not all users), because
> you don't have to keep changing your umask all the time, or
> even worse, fixing file permissions because you (or somebody
> else) forgot to change their umask.
>
I always thought it was a paranoid kind of security "feature"
in Debian. I might be wrong of course.
How does giving every user his own group makes it easier for
him to share files without system administrator's intervention?
I couldn't guite get it, sorry I just woke up but I simply
don't understand it. A small example?
> What's the harm in it?
It populates the groups? I want only meaningful groups there.
Thanks,
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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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