On 24 Aug 2005, jnelson-suse@jamponi.net 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 -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)