This is the first time I've heard of this "solution" named "User Private Groups". Reading the RedHat and Debian doc referred to, "User Private Groups" seems to be another name for setting the umask and the setgid bit in a directory intended for shared work. Did I miss something or is that all it is?
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:32:05AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I see *NO DIFFERENCE* between that and my previously stated goal. > > If you want classic Unix permissions on a file system on a fixed partition > on a non-removable device, then you simply put the device into /etc/fstab > with DEFAULT mount options. None of this crazy "user" or "users" option > stuff, since it's not a thing users are going to mount and unmount. > > Then, inside the mounted file system, you use chown and chgrp and chmod. > >
