Re: Which group to use: staff or users?

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> users is the default group for ordinary users, so it is a really bad
> idea to give to much power to it.

Perhaps so, but ordinary users do not end up in the users group by
default.  You have to make them member explicitly.

> i suggest you to create an own group and set the directory's gid to
> it. put all the "privileged" users in that group.

I was thinking of that too, but users seems like a nice (and existing)
alternative.
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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development