On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each
> user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated?

It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h 

Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories between groups.
AFAIK the same thing can (and should) be done using ACLs but,
unfortunately, this isn't enabled by default on most Linux distros, thus
the Red Hat hack.

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