On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:00, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:25, Garry Byrne wrote: > > We are converting our main mail/web server over from a Susie box to > > Debian. Under Susie ownership on /home/client are client.users and the > > standard debian is client.client > > To my knowledge there is nothing in Debian depending on a one group per > user setup. So the transition might be easier if you just changed the > default to match your old policy, i.e. one group for all users.
I second that. The client.client option in Debian is just the default setup, which can easily be changed. Having 3000 groups in /etc/group will cause some performance loss, but with modern hardware you probably won't notice it much. Generally I find that having all users in one group (or having a small number of groups for different categories of user) makes a server easier to manage. Hmm, I wonder if SUSE has a female employee named Susie... ;) -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
