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Re: should not specify default group for users



> I agreed to your earlier changes, not the recent ones.  :-)  If by default
> all users are in group "users", then the umask must be 022 or the more
> paranoid 077.   The umask cannot be 002 in this case; otherwise, other
> /home users on the system will have write access.

This is not the case. You are missing the point of this

The idea of putting all users in group users is that an application can
obtain an idea of what is a normal user. Not that this is being used
for generic file permissions.

The two issues are unrelated.


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