Re: The 'users' gid: sync, games, and man
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:20:53PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:34:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > sync:
> > games:
> > man:
>
> Good summary. I'm inclined to say nogroup, games, nogroup, because
> using the root group would possibly compromise other files on the
> system that happen to be 0640, 0740 etc. Not that there should be any
> such files, but still. Note also that nothing else appears to be using
> the root group by default.
what happens if an application is running as group nogroup? wouldnt it
be able to read group-readable files created by another program that is
group nogroup? or am i just confused?
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gram
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