Re: Who should own my home directory?
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Please look into the configuration of 2adduser" in
>
> /etc/adduser.conf
>
> and RTFM: man 5 adduser.conf
>
> There is all configurable.
>
> Greetings
> Michelle Konzack
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>
I didn't ask for how to configure this, I was wondering why it is set up
the way it is. Someone gave a useful response ages ago.
>
> 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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