[NCLUG] Why one group per user and SGID home dirs

Matt Taggart matt at lackof.org
Wed Feb 21 09:44:46 MST 2001


Sean Reifschneider writes...

> Why is having your home directory sgid better than having the /project
> directory sgid?  It feels to me like it would be better to have the shared
> location sgid than having everyone's home directories sgid...  At least
> that's the way I do it.

They both have to be setgid in order for a user to feel safe in opening up 
their umask. Did you read the explaination?

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Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org





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