Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:55:06 -0700 From: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user owned groups Message-ID: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu>
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Apoligies in advance but searches based on keyword were too voluminous. I've noticed that with some Linux distributions the default behavior of creating user accounts created the group with the same name as the user, and made that group the primary group of the user. There are other linux distributions that the throw all users into a default group named users. Freebsd does the first. Assuming that Freebsd was designed to be more secure from the start, I am assuming that creating a group for each user was also deemed a security plus. Are there any documents explaining the reasoning behind this? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"
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