Forgot to mention, the default configuration in SuSE has everyone in the "users" group and then gives group members read access to all the home directories. In Red Hat, each user is given his own group, which keeps others out of his home directory. This is true. To do this in SuSE, you either have to change the user's group after creating the user or use Webmin to create the user. It's also a good idea to change /etc/skel, to remove the group permissions, when a user is created. I have no idea why SuSE fails on this issue, when they're supposed to be so focused on security. No. You can easily create groups using the YaST Edit and Create Groups and Users and add the group before you actually create the user. When I update my systems (using a separate /home file system), I do a full install, and when creating a user, I also create the group for that user. I do agree
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 9:57 am, James Knott wrote:
that I would prefer that SuSE create users one per group.
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Jerry Feldman