I wrote: > May I ask why not ? I thought I had provided a clear enough > explanation of the reasoning, and the change is otherwise harmless, > but I'd be happy to go into it further.
Looking into this further, I found this in adduser.conf: # If SETGID_HOME is "yes" home directories for users with their own # group the setgid bit will be set. This was the default for # versions << 3.13 of adduser. Because it has some bad side effects we # no longer do this per default. If you want it nevertheless you can # still set it here. SETGID_HOME=no So my first observation is actually that I'm asking for SETGID_HOME's default to be changed to "yes". The second is that there is this rather fuddish comment about "some bad side effects". I did web search to try to find out what those bad side effects might be, and I found this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=64806 Those "bad side-effects", if they were ever relevant and important enough to make personal groups not work properly, have now been fixed. I have been developing Debian packages on systems with g+s home directories since around 1993. Debian's adduser did the right thing by default from 1997 to 2000. I'd like it to do the right thing again. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
