From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 14:15:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21881 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21865 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25804; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19981008141446.A25136@wopr.caltech.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:14:46 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: jase , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Groupes References: <361D17AA.79C888C7@clearsail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <361D17AA.79C888C7@clearsail.net>; from jase on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:51:06PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:51:06PM -0500, jase wrote: > I'm just curious, why is it that every user gets their very own (empty!) > group? I've seen on a lot of other OSs that everyone gets put into the > 'user' group (not to imply that is a better way of doing it.) and I'm > wondering exactly what the advantages/disadvantages of this are. The rationale for one-user ("unique") groups is described in the manpage for adduser(8). The gist of it is that your users can then run with umask 002 safely; shared directories for people who need to work on the same files are then convenient to use, because it's not necessary to switch umasks when working in the directory or to chmod all of the files to g+w. If you're an ISP or something, and you don't have users working on shared projects, the advantages will be small or zero, though. -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the intellect. -J.R. Mashey http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message