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Re: group staff and /home



also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2004.11.23.2134 +0100]:
> What's the point of /home being gid staff? Means I can add user home
> directories as a user, but I still need root (or sudo) to chown them
> and add the actual users.

Brian Link says that now root can add homedirectories over
NFS/root-squash, by doing a `newgrp staff`. This seems to be
plausible (haven't actually tried), but it can't really be the
reason, can it?

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