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Old 11-22-2007, 10:58 AM   #1
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per-user groupnames


In Fedora, why do users get their own groups beyond just "users" ? For example, when you make a user account on installation, say "daniel," there is an associated "daniel" group and the default permissions for daniel's files are to assign group ownership to "daniel," not "users."
 
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Fine-tuning? Having a different group for each user would seem to allow for more refined access control than placing all users into a single group. Any changes made to the users group would affect all users, not so if they all have a group of their own.
 
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Hi,

I also suspect that users is one of the supplementary groups which daniel is a member of. Use id -a to check. I'm not a fedora user, so please correct me if I'm wrong!

It also creates a more private (safer?) user 'environment'.
 
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It's a security thing, given that historically, nearly everybody would have been in the users grp by default, it led to a lot of potential grief.
 
  


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