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Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser



On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 05:06:32PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
❦ 10 March 2022 11:21 +01, Philip Hands:

On systems that don't use usergroups for all/some users, doesn't this
change make all files writable by other users by default?  That would
seem like a very unsecure change on upgrades (or as a default).

AFAIK systems that don't use usergroups are already not running in
standard Debian configuration, since we default to USERGROUPS_ENAB being
'yes' in login.defs (and likewise USERGROUPS 'yes' in adduser.conf).

Has it always been the case? On my oldest system, my primary group is "users".

It was always configurable, but was enabled out of the box in hamm...


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