On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Ken Barber wrote:
> The User Private Groups (UPG) scheme is unique to Red Hat, and IMO is a bit
> ridiculous. I've never used them.
>
> It has been my practice to create groups that actually do something useful,
> such as "faculty", "students", "finaid" and so on.
and a sohpisticated admin can do this trivially -- but as one
of the people who pushed on tightening down Red Hat's base
install after the avalanche of thrid-porty software which
needed updates at the end of RH 6.2 (bind, wu-ftpd [2x],
sendmail ...)
-- I would much rather err on the side of safe than
'r00ted' -- Every firebreak helps -- This one keeps classmates
and collegues from seeing the carelessly stored cleartext
content which should otherwise be private which belong to
others.
-- my $0,02
-- Russ herrold
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