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Re: max n of groups per user?



Addressed to: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>
              debian-user@lists.debian.org

Hi Jonathan!

** Reply to note from "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:37:25 -0400

> how about assigning group owner ship of the home directories to and administrative group:
>   
> drwxrwxr-x	<user>		admin		/home/<user>

That's what I did first. The problem is that if an administrator copies into a
home-dir, the file is owned administrator.admin - the user can't access it.
 
> I have >1,000 users and don't have difficulty with my UID not having write access to their
> directory, if needed `sudo -u <user> bash` does the trick nicely.

<g> so (a) you are the only administrator or (b) have others willing to work on an unix system.
Here we have one linux-admin and a group of service-admins who are not very interested in the
server, but specialised in plotting, printing, scanning... and use either macs or nt-pcs. The
system is run by students of architecture, and those don't all want to learn unix... So I must
give a fileserver that they can use as if working on their local drive.

Thank you, CU, Lars.




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