Re: user owned groups
From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 05/11/05
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:26:26 -0500 To: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>
In the last episode (May 11), David Bear said:
> Apoligies in advance but searches based on keyword were too
> voluminous.
>
> I've noticed that with some Linux distributions the default behavior
> of creating user accounts created the group with the same name as the
> user, and made that group the primary group of the user. There are
> other linux distributions that the throw all users into a default
> group named users.
>
> Freebsd does the first. Assuming that Freebsd was designed to be more
> secure from the start, I am assuming that creating a group for each
> user was also deemed a security plus.
>
> Are there any documents explaining the reasoning behind this?
Both systems should be equally secure. The BSD way is a bit more
flexible in that you can allow user A access to user B's home
directories by putting user A in group B. Good for allowing teachers
access to student directories (but only the ones taking their classes),
or delegating access while an employee is on vacation.
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