On 10/15/07, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benji Weber wrote: > > On 15/10/2007, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by > >> default with the same name as the username.
> >> What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each > >> user? > > > > What benefit does it give, that we don't have with ACLs already? > > > Currently, with the default configuration users can access other users > home directories. At least that was the case up to 10.2. > So we advise users to put their 'private' stuff in Document folder which is not accessible by other users, that and ACL/Right click remove group permissions takes care of any issues users might have about others peeking in their folders. -J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
