[CS-FSLUG] Users & Groups

[Josiah Ritchie]

I think Nathan's pretty much nailed it.

It's 2 different security and administration viewpoints.

I think adding all your users to the users group is useful on larger
systems because giving them access to an individual resource means you
only have to set the group ownership to users and you don't have to set
world ownership; however, if they are all indifferent groups you have to
set world permissions. There are ways to get around this like sticky
groups.

Of course, a user can be in multiple groups so starting them in their
own group and then adding them to groups as you want to make access to
various resources available on the system (serial port, printer, usb,
etc) you could add them to a corresponding group.

JSR/

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 01:06, N. Thompson wrote:
> I think that the difference between a user having their own group and a user 
> being in the users group is that having their own group makes all their files 
> private whereas otherwise all members of the group users can view the 
> contents of their home folder. I'm just making an educated guess based on 
> what I've seen so far on my own computer so I'm not sure.
> 
> On August 2, 2004 10:26 pm, Christopher Rose wrote:
> > I am unfamiliar with slackware. However, on my computer (a Red Hat 9
> > system), user "tofferer" is in the users group. I do not have any problems
> > with running my machine this way. My only problem is finding the needed
> > files to run DVD's.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb at verizon.net>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:45:06 -0700
> > To: christiansource at ofb.biz
> > Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Users & Groups
> >
> > > Question:
> > >
> > > After installing my Slackware 10 system and rebooting, I come to the
> > > login: prompt. At this point the only user is root, so I login as root.
> > > Then I create an account for user "jerry". The system tells me that jerry
> > > belongs to the group "users". My question is, is this the preferred group
> > > for user "jerry"? Or, should I create a group called "jerry" and add user
> > > "jerry" to group "jerry"? In other words, is the default group "users" a
> > > good practice, or is it better to create another group? How do all of you
> > > guys & gals handle this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > jerry
> > > --
> > > The KING is coming!---------------Rev. 1:7
> > > Jerry Van Brimmer-----------------jerry at vanbrimmer.net
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> > >
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