Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:00:08 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0012050954450.11335-100000@husten.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <20001205013158.A29828@wopr.caltech.edu>
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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
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