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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:09:23 -0500
From:      Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   per-user groups
Message-ID:  <20021105130922.A36056@cthulu.compt.com>

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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

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