On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > > I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm > > > annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that > > > reall necessary? > > > > No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in > > directories shared with other users (but not all users), because > > you don't have to keep changing your umask all the time, or > > even worse, fixing file permissions because you (or somebody > > else) forgot to change their umask. > > > > I always thought it was a paranoid kind of security "feature" > in Debian. I might be wrong of course. > > How does giving every user his own group makes it easier for > him to share files without system administrator's intervention? > I couldn't guite get it, sorry I just woke up but I simply > don't understand it. A small example? >
Other people have provided most of the really useful reasons, but another one, which is denies access rather than providing it: If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I can set permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l plot-against-fred -rw----r-- 1 pde fred 10000 Dec 27 17:12 plot-against-fred Of course, I need root access to do it :( -- |> |= -+- |= |> | |- | |- |\ Peter Eckersley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde for techno-leftie inspiration, take a look at http://www.computerbank.org.au/
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