From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 1: 0:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 01:00:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249CF37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 01:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-88-163.netcologne.de [213.168.88.163] (may be forged)) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15263; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:00:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB5908e14822; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:00:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:00:08 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman Sender: To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Subject: Re: NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h In-Reply-To: <20001205013158.A29828@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:57:53AM +0100, Paul Herman wrote: > > > I never understood the reasoning behind each user having their own > > group (with their login name). > > You make their home directories be owned by their personal group > (e.g. mph:mph) and you create groups for collaborative projects to > which several users belong. Directories with project files are owned > by the project group (e.g. mph:project69). The users run with > umask 002 and everything's group writable. > > [...snip...] > The files in the user's home directory are writable only by him, > because there's nobody else in his personal group. Makes sense in a backwards sort of way, but if a sysadmin can't teach users how to use chmod, then he probably deserves the punishment of dealing with more than 16 groups. That is definately chmod's calling. ...but I never thought of this case. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message