From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 5 10: 9:32 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 CAEC937B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from kobold.compt.com (TBextgw.compt.com [209.115.146.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D0E43E75 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from klaus@kobold.compt.com) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:09:23 -0500 From: Klaus Steden To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: per-user groups Message-ID: <20021105130922.A36056@cthulu.compt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 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. 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? Just curious, not looking to start a long discussion about it, so off-list answers are fine. thanks, Klaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message