Date: 05 Nov 2002 14:07:59 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-security-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-user groups Message-ID: <441y5zj0mo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20021105130922.A36056@cthulu.compt.com>
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Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com> writes: > Can anyone explain to me the benefits of per-user groups? It seems to me that > modern *nix systems, FreeBSD included, create a new group for each user. The only thing that does this is adduser(8), which is just a script that can be (and is) adapted easily for people with different kinds of policies in mind. > Is there a security benefit (or some other benefit) to be had by this? Why has > it apparently been adopted as a convention by the free *nix flavours? There's an explanation in the manual for adduser(8)... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the messagehome | help
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