Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm > > annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that > > reall necessary? > > No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in > directories shared with other users (but not all users), because > you don't have to keep changing your umask all the time, or > even worse, fixing file permissions because you (or somebody > else) forgot to change their umask. >
I always thought it was a paranoid kind of security "feature" in Debian. I might be wrong of course. How does giving every user his own group makes it easier for him to share files without system administrator's intervention? I couldn't guite get it, sorry I just woke up but I simply don't understand it. A small example? > What's the harm in it? It populates the groups? I want only meaningful groups there. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo