From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 17:47:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A0716A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 17:47:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DA243D96 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 17:47:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lewiz@compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: from xeon.compsoc.man.ac.uk ([192.84.78.1] helo=noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DVvIU-000J0M-Hb; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:47:02 +0100 Received: from noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4BHl2Tf023305; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:47:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk) Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4BHl22X023304; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:47:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:47:02 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050511174702.GA23222@noisy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20050511165506.GC10213@asu.edu> <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428242D7.6040103@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-UoM: Scanned by the University Mail System. See http://www.mcc.ac.uk/cos/email/scanning for details. cc: David.Bear@asu.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user owned groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:47:04 -0000 On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If all of the users have their default group be staff or some such, anyone > can change any file which is group-writable. If each user has their > default group be a unique group (with UID==GID), then users can safely use > a 002 umask, without worrying about their files being stolen or changed by > other users, and yet still use group accounts to work with other users when > they do want to share files with. Okay, I'm going to jump in now and ask something I have always wanted to know the answer to but always seem to forget. Can /home be configured so all files are created with permissions of 0600 (or 0700 for directories)? I use a umask of 77 but that's annoying when playing with files in other locations. Sorry if this is obvious/stupid :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:lewiz@fajita.org | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-