Re: user private groups and a src group

[Matthew Hannigan <matth@ucc.su.oz.au>]

iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) writes:
> [ good rebuttal of Paul's points ]

> [ .. ]
> Secondly, it wouldn't be mandatory, it would be the default.  If you
> didn't like it switching it off would be much easier than switching it
> on (even if you had to edit adduser manually).
>  [ .. ]
> However, having said that, I'm convinced that in practice noone other
> than those whose uids and gids are constrained by their site would
> bother, because this scheme will cause problems for noone !

I'd like to second that.  Why don't you (dear list readers) try it.
We'll be no worse off and gasp, you may actually like it after you've
tried it.  It's not _that_ great a deal.

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	-Matt Hannigan