Re: groups

[Michel Loos <loos@qt1.iq.usp.br>]

Em Sáb, 2002-02-09 às 15:57, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu:
> * Greg Murphy (slackwares_slacker@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> > I recently switched from slackware to debian. Under slack, when users were 
> > added they were defaultly added to the group "users". I see debian gives each 
> > user his/her own group.
> > 
> > 1. Why did debian adopt this method? 
> 
> ISTR that it was discussed way back... Try searching old debian-devel 
> archives maybe?
> 
> Basically, Unix ugo permissions suck -- they were OK in 1975 when
> computers weren't fast enough to support better security mechanisms,
> but in 2002 they're simly not fine-grained enough.
> 

Back to multics where the access control was really fine-grained

Michel.