Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:47:03 +0000 From: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Username & groups Message-ID: <20080417174703.141f63b7@gom.home> In-Reply-To: <480757F8.7050702@radel.com> References: <ee9dc2b40804170319t4f86b5d2pd7ea1cf23adefd1a@mail.gmail.com> <480757F8.7050702@radel.com>
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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0400
Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> wrote:
> Other things being equal, it's better
> to have all users use their own login group and then add them to
> additional groups as appropriate.
>
jon,
i have always been curious about this. why is it better for a user to
be in his own group? on slackware i recall users all went into the
users group.
one benefit i can see is that if a user has his own group then you
can effectively give others access to certain files by adding them to
that users group.
are there other reasons?
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