On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:23:55PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> First of all, most *nix distros create all users with the same GID, e.g.
> "users." Lots of distros also have the unfortunate tendency to create
> home directories group-writable, so users essentially have zero privacy
> out of the box.
True, and bad.
> The "user private groups" idea is primarily a Red Hat-ism.
Actually, this is a legacy of AT&T Unix. Well, maybe not--it could just
be parallel development. But I'd bet that whoever set this policy was
familiar with and bought into the SVRx model.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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