User Private Groups and ACLs
Hi,
I'm running Debian Woody with the XFS filesystems.
As such, I have access to ACLs (a _much_ better way of managing file
permissions than standard unix file permissions, imho)
With this in mind, the need for a User-Private-Group scheme is
obsoleted, as the same can be achieved through the use of default ACLs.
I've investigated changing over my groups (ie: removing user private
groups, and make all users in the default users group), however there
seems to be some catches.
Software such as cgi-wrap come precompiled for Debian with check-gid
turned on - thus I would have to recompile this. Are there any other
things I would have to manually build to free myself from UPG's?
One might argue, why remove UPGs? That's a valid point. ACLs and UPGs
can go hand in hand, but when obsoletes the other, why keep it?
rgds,
Ian.
--
Ian Cumming, ian@semisphere.org
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
-- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
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