From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 06:19:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45E21065674 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:19:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6A88FC13 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:19:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JZK00KVC44H7L90@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:19:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JZK0051U44GJH90@pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:19:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JZK00IFR44EEM30@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:19:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFC5B844 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:47:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:47:03 +0000 From: prad In-reply-to: <480757F8.7050702@radel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080417174703.141f63b7@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <480757F8.7050702@radel.com> Subject: Re: Username & groups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:19:33 -0000 On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:24 -0400 Jon Radel 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? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's