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On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each |
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> user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated? |
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It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h |
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Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories between groups. |
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AFAIK the same thing can (and should) be done using ACLs but, |
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unfortunately, this isn't enabled by default on most Linux distros, thus |
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the Red Hat hack. |
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