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Re: Who should own my home directory?



Please look into the configuration of 2adduser" in

                /etc/adduser.conf

and RTFM:       man 5 adduser.conf

There is all configurable.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant



Am 2006-01-22 19:40:00, schrieb Dan Martins:
> Which group should 'own' the files in my home directory?
> 
> I just noticed that most sub-directories and files in my home folder are owned by 
> dan:dan.
> 
> dan is the user account i use on my pc, it is the only account i log in 
> under other than root (this is a home pc, i'm the only one that uses 
> it).
> 
> The output from 'groups' shows that I am not a member of 'users' 
> but that my initial group is 'dan' which as a gid of 1000. The 'users' 
> group is gid 100.
> 
> This doesn't seem right to me. 
> 
> How does debian work in this respect? Should there even be a 'dan' 
> group? Should my primary group be users?
> 
> 
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