On 4/25/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:59:20 +0200, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/24/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> While checking the bugs reported by Peter I noticed that useradd (the > >> one from Shadow package, invoked by AddUser) automatically creates a > >> group with the same name as the username supplied in the command line. > >> Is that really needed, as we have the 'users' group common to > >> everyone? I would vote for removing it, but I'd just like to hear your > >> opinion first. > >> > > > > I say keep it. Groups are cheap. > > > Why is it used? What is the advantage of having one group per user? > Especially when groups can't be members of other groups.
A file configured to be owned by foo:foo would be equivalent to configuring it to be owned by foo:users with group bits set to zero, so I really don't see a reason to have this kind of group by default.. -- Lucas powered by /dev/dsp _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
