On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:49:46AM -0400, James Knott 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. For example in Gentoo
> >>creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
> >>long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
> >>group for home folders.
> >>
> >>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?
> >
> >--
> >Benjamin Weber
> >  
> Currently, with the default configuration users can access other users 
> home directories.  At least that was the case up to 10.2.

/etc/login.defs , UMASK

Ciao, Marcus
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