From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 5 11: 8: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A7E37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFD343E6E for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:08:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-security-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA5J7xWJ024681 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:07:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-security-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA5J7xEB024678; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:07:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-security-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: per-user groups References: <20021105130922.A36056@cthulu.compt.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 05 Nov 2002 14:07:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021105130922.A36056@cthulu.compt.com> Message-ID: <441y5zj0mo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Klaus Steden 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 message