John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 22 October 2006 20:09, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Thursday 19 October 2006 11:40 pm, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 19 October 2006 22:19, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi all, I come from RH/FC. I notice that in Suse, when we create user it's upg would be "users" and not him/her. Why is that? Do you have any url I can read on? Thanks. I have no knowledge of the official reason but to me it always seemed redundant for create a group specific to a user.
There's an interesting article on the subject on OnLamp...
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/using_user_private_groups.html>
Scott
But that's what one does to create collaboration directories under SUSE as well.
With either scheme you still have to create a new group and you still have to add users to it and you still have to set the sgid.
Nobody suggested these special collaboration directories be owned by the group "users".
He set up a straw man and knocked him down masterfully.
UPGs are still silly IMHO.
Currently, with SUSE, all "users" group members have read access to everyone's home directories. With the RH method, where each user is a member of only his own group, unless added to another, that doesn't happen. In a single user system, that's not a problem. But on multiuser systems it can be.