should not specify default group for users
What do people (especially George) think of the following change? Or
to put it another way, how does specifying a default here enhance
application portability?
Index: usersgroups.m4
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RCS file: /cvsroot/lsb/website/spec/usersgroups/usersgroups.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 usersgroups.m4
--- usersgroups.m4 2000/03/20 19:44:38 1.3
+++ usersgroups.m4 2000/03/20 21:49:18
@@ -155,11 +155,11 @@
"user groups" should be defined.
</PARA>
<PARA>
-By default, all end-users should be in the same group "users" like
-everyone else on the system with the default umask of 022. Under
-special circumstances the system administrator may wish to have users
-in their own group with the umask of 002; however, this is not the default
-behavior.
+Systems will typically put all end-users in the same group "users"
+with the default umask of 022. Other
+systems (or system administrators) may put users
+in their own group with the umask of 002.
+Applications should not assume one or the other.
</PARA>
</SECT1>
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