Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Aug 2005, jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I feel that this is the crux of the situation.  Consider it "secure by
> default."  If I recall properly, Debian could turn the per-user group 
> concept on and off such that when on new users automatically got new 
> groups of the same name and preferably UID==GID.  

Yes, user privacy groups. It actually originates from Redhat.

> It seems to me that there is no way that SuSE 10.0 is going to be able
> to be modified to make groups for each user when that user is created,

You are correct. I do use user privacy groups on my system. However I
have to do it manually everytime a new user is created.

> but that is no reason not to try to get that behavior changed for the
> future.

One of us should file a feature request, I would like the option for
SUSE Linux to do it automatically too.

Charles

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