[NCLUG] Why one group per user and SGID home dirs
Matt Taggart
taggart at carmen.fc.hp.com
Tue Feb 20 19:42:50 MST 2001
Evelyn Mitchell writes...
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:22:29PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> >
> > Per-user groups are very meaningful, and are a good demonstration of why
> > Debian is a superior OS to many others.
>
> Actually this is not Debian-specific, most Unix/Linux systems will allow
> this.
Yes of course they will allow it but it's the default on Debian, adduser just
does it. I just checked RedHat 6.2 and it has group per user but doesn't seem
to setgid on $HOME. What does RedHat 7.0 do?
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Matt Taggart Linux Development Lab
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