Public bug reported: Binary package hint: adduser
Current behaviour is: The "users" group exists but is not populated (empty). When setting up a (set group ID) group directory (i.e. /home/group/users) users can not collaborate on files in that directory. (This was originally broken because gnome-system-tools introduced its own user profiles without using adduser profiles (different config files) and disabling the EXTRA_GROUPS in adduser.conf alltogether instead of leaving the "users" group untouched.) Changed (repaired) behaviour would be: Users are added to the "users" group just as well when the default (private) USERGROUP scheme is used, so that group directories for "users" are functional again. Two solutions exist to have all (regular/login) users to belong to the users group by default again: 1) Centrally add one line to /etc/security/group.conf (for dynamic addition to the group during login): *; *; *; Al0000-2400; users 2) Add all existing users (according to adduser.conf: FIRST_UID / LAST_UID) manually/scripted to the users group and setting EXTRA_GROUPS="users" in adduser.conf for new users. There should be no security risk involved, because no files belonging to the users group are created by default and at the same time users is applied as the primary group to users when (private) USERGROUPS are disabled in /etc/adduser.conf. The users group is generally used as a group refering to all users, and it makes the user private group scheme work as designed. (this issue is filed in the context of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement ) ** Affects: adduser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- users are not added to "users" group (empty, broken behaviour) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549117 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
