From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 06:58:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA19847 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 06:58:45 -0700 Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA19839 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 06:58:40 -0700 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16406; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:50:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:50:23 -0400 (EDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List drop To: Joseph McDonald cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Joseph McDonald wrote: > The adduser command creates a seperate group for each user. Is this by > design or is it a bug? If you look at 'man adduser' in 2.0.5 (you didn't say what you were using) the very first paragraph lists the potentials of each user being a unique ("UNIQ" in the page) group. It basically says that you can then not have to worry about others in their group having access to their files unwittingly. Whether you agree with this or not, I'd say this indicates it's a feature, not a bug. (Or at least that's the cover story. )